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Mikhail Kostylev

The goat, the cabbage and inclusive writing

[by Guillaume Pronesti, moderator of the FB group "No to the imposition of inclusive writing"] We know the bad joke played on the mathematician Chasles. From 1861 to 1869, the forger Vrain-Lucas sold him more than 27 "autograph" letters from

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Nathalie Heinich

What activism does to research

[by Nathalie Heinich] (Gallimard, “Tracts” collection, released May 27, 2021) Evoking the influence of politics on the French academic world and the way in which thought has been frozen, historian Jacques Julliard identifies three successive “glaciations”: the Soviet-Marxist glaciation,

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Collective

"Michel Wieviorka is only the pyromaniac firefighter of antiracism"

[Tribune initially published in Marianne] Several intellectuals, including members of the Observatory of Decolonialism and Identity Ideologies, have analyzed in Marianne the rhetoric of sociologist Michel Wieviorka, anxious to present himself as the antidote to the poison that he has abundantly

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Collective

“Racialism,” Hegemony, and Community Manipulation

[By Vinh BINH, computer scientist, former student of INALCO] The title of a book released in April 2021 is significant of an intellectual moment in France (Ya-Han Chuang: “A model minority? Chinese in France and anti-Asian racism” La Découverte). It reveals a whole program

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Yana Grinshpuhn

Old pots and decolonial soups

by Yana Grinshpun In the Soviet Union, it was a question of conforming to the spirit of the system which postulated respect for communist dogma. The latter presented itself as an emancipatory, progressive and humanist project which implied the creation of the New Man. This

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Vincent Tournier

You are Vincent Tournier

by Marie Comparet, former student, Sorbonne-Nouvelle University “You are Joseph K.,” said the priest, and he raised his arm in an imprecise direction. “Yes,” said K., thinking with what frankness he used to pronounce his name. For some time now, it had been costing him

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Collective

An anti-republican point of view: radical secularism

Transcript of the conference by Aïssan Aït Yahya held in Paris 13 on April 15, 2016 A recent article published in Marianne reports on a conference by Issam Aït Yahya on the campus of a French university entitled: La Laïcité

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Observers Collective

“No to moral intimidation at university!”

Interview with Sandra Kostner by Cinzia Sciuto, March 17, 2021 Source: MicroMega, March 17, 2021 https://www.micromega.net/contro-intimidazioni-morali-universita/Translation: Emmanuelle Hénin Censored authors, taboo themes, identity claims. In recent years, a climate of moral and ideological intimidation has emerged in universities that has

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