
Theatre, a niche for elitist wokeness?
How wokeism influences theatre by imposing elitist and often polarising cultural norms, while remaining distant from social and popular concerns.
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How wokeism influences theatre by imposing elitist and often polarising cultural norms, while remaining distant from social and popular concerns.

Several recently published studies show that a growing gap is opening up between the cultural and moral conceptions of young women and young men. By Olivier Galland.

“Woke ideology is nothing but pure negation”: book review of the book “Understanding the Woke Revolution” by Pierre Valentin.

The work proposed by Pauline Arrighi remains one of the most relevant and useful in these times of great ideological confusion. The approach should even be commended.

Faced with graduate Wok activists, the diagnosis is often uncertain: one hesitates between ribboned stupidity and concealed madness. What we call lack of judgment or impaired discernment arises in fact between these two poles: conformist (or snobbish) stupidity and mental disorders…

European Union: Identity Pressures (Conference organized at the Maison de l'Amérique latine on 7/12 at 17 p.m.). Program, registration and speakers.

Interview with Xavier-Laurent Salvador: In about ten years, wokeism, intersectionality, decolonialism, racialism and all their combinations have entered public life. What are we talking about? What are their roots?

Through various mediations, Nazi thinkers and ideologues today find heirs, whether they are claimed or not. In the case of Heidegger, they range from certain Eurasians to Shiite and Sunni Islamists to ultra-left movements.

Western universities are beginning to seriously worry. The development of wokeism and its derivatives, with their share of delusions, censorship and hatred, had already raised the alarm. But after the events in the Middle East, a milestone has been reached.

Let’s take a step back. Judith Butler explained in 2006 that “it is extremely important to see Hamas and Hezbollah as progressive social movements, which are on the left and part of a global left”…