Humor
Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The beaver and his rodent, a children's fable

[by Xavier-Laurent Salvador] It is recalled that castoreum is a medieval oil used in medicine to cure everything resulting from the animal's ability to self-mutilate its genitals in case of danger. There is no shameful redness, and

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feature articles
Francois Rastier

From inclusive writing to translanguage

By François Rastier A fundamental principle of the contemporary economy, deregulation extends from the economic world to the social world, particularly through the Internet. Large firms maintain the enslaved individualism of the customer-king through customization that gives everyone the illusion of fixing

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inclusive
Collective

On the ideology of care: the return of a soft fanaticism

By Charles Coutel We thought the case had been closed since the 2000s with the debate within the parliamentary left between Manuel Valls and Martine Aubry; we sincerely thought we had finished with the ideology of care. However, a recent publication

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mood(s)
Collective

Amendments against inclusive writing rejected

We read in the very recent article of Le Parisien of January 19, 2021 that among the "riders" of the amendments to the law against separatism, various articles deemed to be totally inept were rejected. Thus we read: Thus we saw

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