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Understanding identity and communitarianism and its effects at the University
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Vincent Tournier and Jacques Robert
Vincent Tournier is a lecturer in political science at the IEP of Grenoble. Jacques Robert is Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
Stand up for Science: A generous mobilization in favor of threatened American researchers… that we had not seen at work in favor of those who were ostracized in the past for crimes of opinion. Ideological prejudices and political correctness harm science! Beware of militant actions that undermine scientific rigor…
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Pierre Vermeren
Pierre Vermeren, a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and a history professor, is a specialist in the Maghreb and the Arab-Berber worlds.
At a time when the French-language writer Boualem Sansal was dying in the jails of Algiers, the star political journalist of RTL declared on air on February 25, 2025 that France "made hundreds of Oradour-sur-Glane" in Algeria, and "that the Nazis behaved as we did in Algeria."
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Jacques-Robert
Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
We are the advocates of the dead, not because we hear their voices, but because we refuse to subject knowledge to seductive illusions. Science cannot be a field of "exceptional" experiments; it is, above all, a space of intellectual demand.
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In a few years, we have produced and continue to produce more than 2000 articles with a view to documenting the penetration of identity ideologies and wokeness within the university – in France, and in the world – on all subjects and covering all areas of this disaster. We submit each year an objective report on the issue and we publish documented analyses. You can't say you didn't know...
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“The Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin
In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed through intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
March 19, 2025
Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille
Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler
March 18, 2025
Book review of “The Damned of the Sea: Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” by Camille Schmoll
In "The Damned of the Sea," Camille Schmoll analyzes the journey of migrant women in the Mediterranean, highlighting the violence they experience, the obstacles of migration policies, and their quest for autonomy through in-depth field research. She deconstructs preconceived ideas about the feminization of migration and highlights the role of digital technology as a space for resistance and identity reconstruction.
Mireille Quivy
March 17, 2025
An Apocalypse of Nihilism – a critical look at a revealing exhibition at the BnF
The National Library of France is organizing a major exhibition on the Apocalypse, exploring its original meaning as "revelation" rather than the end of the world. The event, structured in three parts, offers an immersion into John's text, an analysis of the Apocalypse in art, and a contemporary reflection on the post-catastrophe, sparking controversy over an underlying ideology.
Carlos Henriques-Pereira
March 13, 2025
Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on March 5, 2025
The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational organization founded in 1928, seeks to impose its theocratic vision through methodical indoctrination and adaptation to local contexts.
Taking advantage of Western freedoms, the brotherhood is gradually carrying out Islamization by targeting young people and infiltrating associative and political circles. Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler given at the Hauts-de-France regional council in Lille after its cancellation at the University of Lille.
Ivan Burel
March 9, 2025
PERPETUAL ABOLITION: FOR A FINALLY LIBERATED DECOLONIAL FRANCE (BUT NOT TOO FAST)
While campaigning with absolute intransigence for total abolition here, we must guard against any attempt at hasty judgment on non-Western societies which, for their part, have perhaps found in certain forms of servitude a civilizational balance that it is not up to us to deconstruct. The essential thing is to abolish, again and again, in France only.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
February 28, 2025
Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10
A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.
Claudio Rubiliani
February 24, 2025
The Erostratos of Good or the arsonists of memory
Since 2020, calls have been growing in the West to erase or rename public symbols deemed to be linked to a colonial, racist and slave-owning past.
This movement, amplified by contemporary demands such as those of Black Lives Matter, seeks to purge the public space of any reference considered problematic.
Ivan Burel denounces the Manichean approach and the moral anachronism of this phenomenon, comparable to the Roman damnatio memoriae, which risks distorting collective memory and dividing society.
Ivan Burel
February 24, 2025
The editorials
To end the nonsense about academic freedom
There is a lot of talk these days about "academic freedom", but it is mostly to say stupid things, which a little common sense and knowledge of the issue should be enough to dispel.
Nathalie Heinich
1th August 2024
The editorials
National Assembly: family photo in ethnic color?
At Mediapart, we never run out of absurdities. Their latest enormity, dated July 10, could pass for the gag of the summer: the photos of
Claudio Rubiliani
July 19, 2024
The editorials
Scientific journals at the service of a political party?
Between the two rounds of the 2024 legislative elections, a platform entitled “Reviews in struggle: the social sciences against the extreme right” was made public…
Nicolas Weill-Parot
July 9, 2024
apolitical
Facing the RN: let's get things straight
The supporters of left-wing identity ideologies – those that we have been fighting on this site for three and a half years, under the name of “wokism” – are trying hard to assimilate our approach to “the right” or even to the “extreme right”… Discover Nathalie Heinich’s editorial.
Nathalie Heinich
July 4, 2024
The editorials
Badinter-market
We learn with amazement that the teaching staff of a small Savoyard college refused to allow this college to take the name of Robert Badinter...
Jacques-Robert
29th June 2024
identity drifts
The impact of ideological discourses on minors
The rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Courbevoie in the 92 department on Saturday June 15, 2024, should leave no one indifferent...
Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff
25th June 2024
The editorials
Red-handed Narcissus
"The collective imagination forged in human societies in the 20th and 21st centuries finds its source in part in the evocative power of images broadcast first in the written press and then especially in Mondio-vision in front of hundreds of millions of viewers." Read the editorial by Joseph Ciccolini.
Joseph Ciccolini
18th June 2024
The editorials
"Pascal Perrineau has not done badly"
"It was too much for the headhunters. The advocates of a univocal pluralism decided to silence him", or how Pascal Perrineau lost his emeritus.
Pierre Vermeren
10th June 2024
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Secularism is still Voltaire's fault
In December 2022, Ifop reported that 56% of public secondary school teachers said they had already self-censored their teaching, to avoid any incident triggered in the name of religious or philosophical beliefs.
Francois Rastier
4th June 2023
secularism
Can you imagine restricting Dominique Schnapper?
Article one of the 1958 Constitution explains that the Republic is indivisible, secular, democratic and social. Secularism is therefore one of those principles that require, above all, a legal organization. Founded on the principle of separation (public sphere, private sphere) which guarantees freedom of conscience and worship, it is weakened today by the conjunction of politics and religion under the auspices of a galloping wokism that agrees with people like Norman Ajari in declaring that it is at once an "apartheid" measure, or even "Islamophobic, discriminatory, unjust and far-right."
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
May 22, 2023
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The intersectional left, a godsend for the far right
Wouldn't the totalizing project of inclusion aim at a form of closure? We know that the strength of mythical thought lies in particular in its closure: myths are characterized by constant references between all semantic domains that allow thought to be locked in a totalization that is as seductive as it is illusory.
Francois Rastier
May 15, 2023
feature articles
The West at the Foot of the Wall
The fact is obvious: Islamism, this Islam on the offensive, banal or warlike, spectacular or diffuse, is in Europe, for a long time and in all its forms. It is spreading and developing. The French territory, its institutions and, increasingly, its populations are stakeholders in this atypical world war in progress.
Common Places (Collective)
May 9, 2023
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In the suburbs, elementary Islamism
Interview conducted with a sympathizer in June 2015, initially published in November 2015 in the brochure “n°21 Islamisms, Islamogauchisme, Islamophobie. Première partie: L’islam à l’offensive, de la prédication à la guerre”, then posted online on the Lieux Communs website in September 2016.
Common Places (Collective)
April 28, 2023
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The corporatization of the council of wise men
Article one of the 1958 Constitution explains that the Republic is indivisible, secular, democratic and social. Secularism is therefore one of those principles that require, above all, a legal organization. Founded on the principle of separation (public sphere, private sphere) which guarantees freedom of conscience and worship, it is weakened today by the conjunction of politics and religion under the auspices of a galloping wokism that agrees with people like Norman Ajari in declaring that it is at once an "apartheid" measure, or even "Islamophobic, discriminatory, unjust and far-right."
At the same time, a paradox is emerging in society: on the one hand, we want to abolish the boundary between the public and private spheres through religious demands within public services (the canteen, prayer, the separation of men and women, etc.) and at the same time, companies are demanding its application when it has no place there.
The school institution is at the heart of the tensions that are obviously shaking the adult world. Teachers are increasingly torn between the organizing principle to which they are subject and the social aspirations of the public users of the public service: their students and their parents. The odious murder committed in the most barbaric of ways
which Samuel Patty was a victim of should in itself be enough to understand that it is essential to resist by reaffirming the organizing principles of the State. The institutions which define the extent of the identity of the French nation depend in part on these: the language, its culture and literature, its school.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
April 20, 2023
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Interview with Emmanuelle Hénin, After the deconstruction
We had the pleasure of interviewing Emmanuelle Hénin about the publication of the proceedings of the conference After deconstruction, the university challenged by ideologies, published by Odile Jacob.
Collective
April 11, 2023
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The tyranny of the majority? Really?
Our theme involves various issues where we are led to use the terms "culture", "minority", "majority" and "law". Each term must be defined anew, given the imprecision of words in the media, political life and in our university institution, the latter in particular contaminated by the current Woke movement.
charles coutel
March 16, 2023
American epistemology
When Sylvie Laurent uses sociology to deny the existence of poor whites in the United States (and in France)
Sylvie Laurent compiles in her book almost all the most hollow concepts of contemporary sociology.
Laurent Otttavi
September 6, 2024
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After the big night, the early mornings that disappoint
Review of Nellie Bowles' book Morning after the Revolution, Penguin Random House, 2024 by Jacques Robert.
Jacques-Robert
12th August 2024
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PIR policy selected at the French Academy in Rome
Thus sacrificing to the spirit of the times - or, according to some, to an ideology that has become dominant and to which it would be appropriate to conform - the Académie de France in Rome now seems to often give the advantage, in its selection process, to projects that authorize themselves by questioning gender norms (and in particular "hetero-patriarchy"), by criticizing racism (designated as "systemic" or inherent in all institutions of Western societies, while anti-Semitism remains, in these approaches, and unsurprisingly, as a blind spot) or even by criticizing, against the backdrop of a global ecological crisis invested with an apocalyptic dimension, "extractive" and "neo-liberal" capitalism.
Ludovic Dillenseger
July 19, 2024
apolitical
Facing the RN: let's get things straight
The supporters of left-wing identity ideologies – those that we have been fighting on this site for three and a half years, under the name of “wokism” – are trying hard to assimilate our approach to “the right” or even to the “extreme right”… Discover Nathalie Heinich’s editorial.
Nathalie Heinich
July 4, 2024
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Wokeism doesn't like the weak. Disability studies vs autistics
Disability studies defends a new perspective on disability: breaking down the boundary between the normal and the pathological and highlighting the "experiential knowledge" of disabled people.
Pauline Arrighi
27th June 2024
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How to define identity ideologies
Identity ideologies? Definition, origin of the struggles…
Jacques-Robert
24th June 2024
Wokism
Herbert Marcuse, the grandfather of wokeism
Herbert Marcuse could be the grandfather of wokism, an idea proposed by Pierre Valentin, for the LAIC seminar.
Collective
11th June 2024
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The victim and the sacred at the foundation of wokeism
François Azouvi analyzes the victim ideology in the West, showing how the sacralization of victims, inspired by Bergson's "double frenzy", has transformed modern societies.
Francois Azouvi
May 27, 2024
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Tract #8 – Is his yes a real yes?
Is his yes a real yes?
How do you know if he really consents? The slightest gesture is tinged with ambiguity. And that sigh, does it show desire? Boredom? Embarrassment? How can you know without checking?
Where am I? The object of his fantasy? His father? His mother? George Clooney? A nurse?
So what, if I'm not me anymore, who is there? How can I know without checking?
Does he really consent?
Check it every moment, every movement… until the very last moment.
But also later. The next day, 6 months or 6 years later. Was it a real yes, and no to blindness, or one drink too many? Or the influence of a narcissistic pervert?
Woke-Machine
February 26, 2025
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Tract #7 – Do we still need men?
Do we still need men?
New advances in biology are on the horizon. But for now, only a few male breeders, confined to a laboratory, are sufficient for the perpetuation of the species.
So why wait? Why bother with men? These specialists in sexist humor, mansplaining, and hidden aggression…
Not to mention that there is a rapist hiding in each of them.
Let us get rid of men and live among ourselves a rediscovered, reinvented, joyful sisterhood, in the image of the benevolence which animates us and colours the pleiad of our associations.
Woke-Machine
February 19, 2025
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Tract #6 – Let’s refuse to be assigned to our birth color
Who has never felt bad about themselves?
Why should we accept being assigned to our birth skin?
To leave it there, is that not a profound injustice?
And the basis of multiple offenses or discriminations?
We urgently demand funding from the public authorities for scientific research that will allow everyone to have the skin color that corresponds to their TRUE personality.
Woke-Machine
February 12, 2025
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Tract #05 – Let’s celebrate inclusive writing!
Let’s celebrate inclusive writing!
It is clear that the French language is particularly obscure, if not erratic, with regard to the gender of objects.
To remedy this, it is necessary to carry out a purification aimed at matching the gender of the object to the person who uses it.
The one who sees himself as Valérie will say I'm going to sit on this chair or that armchair, while Kevin will say I'm sitting on this chair or that armchair.
This purification will also have the advantage of better identifying the gender in which the human being feels and therefore avoiding any offense.
Woke-Machine
February 5, 2025
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NEWS FROM THE NOTORIOUS AND OTHER EMINENCES…
[by Patricia Farazzi, we are reprinting here an article which is not favorable to us, but which at least made us laugh, published on the
Collective
21th January 2022
artculture
The Museum of Modern Art Caught in the Flames of Ideology
[This text by Nathalie Heinich was first published on January 5, 2022 in Franc Tireur, which gave permission to reproduce it here] Here is
Nathalie Heinich
14th January 2022
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Unpublished documents: an autograph manuscript by Heidegger (UBF, Frei. 38, 346v.)
[by XLS and HH] As a result of the conference on reconstruction, a history and archives enthusiast contacted us to send us this autograph document from
Collective
12th January 2022
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Mikhail's Inclusive Christmas
[by Mikhail Kostylev] Christmas is coming! Unfortunately, due to the health crisis and national deficit, we won't be able to hire the Old Bearded Man this year - he is
Mikhail Kostylev
24st December 2021
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For a world in the middle
[by V. Wiel, Professor of 17th Century Literature] If it were still necessary to prove that our language is fascist, discriminatory towards minorities and that it is urgent to
Collective
10st December 2021
mood(s)
The French University - this inclusive kolkhoz
by Yana Grinshpun and Mikhail Kostylev In our (Soviet) youth, France was nicknamed the "16th Republic of the USSR". Emigration was a cruel disillusionment: the
Mikhail Kostylev
3st December 2021
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Our open letter to the Sorbonne
by the collective, unanimous Following the injunction addressed to us to withdraw article 1269 by the Provisional Administrator of the Sorbonne, here is the letter
Collective
November 12, 2021
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From the Making of the Victim to the Making of the Executioner: I am Corsican and therefore I too am an offended victim!
by Joseph Ciccolini The era being one of self-pity and the updating of one's wounds, which everyone is now invited to scratch at whomever
Joseph Ciccolini
October 8th 2021
Reading : Compte rendu
Polanski: Poisoned Logic
Exclusive excerpt from Sabine Prokhoris' book, "Who's Afraid of Roman Polanski?" If there is one thing that Roman Polanski had to deal with, in several forms, the fatal experience, it is the destructive power of falsification erected as a norm.
Patrick Boucheron and Pierre-André Taguieff in troubled times: joint review
From anti-Zionism to "Judeomisia", are we witnessing a victim inversion assimilating Jews to Nazis? The convergence between radical Islamism and the extreme left, the questioning of republican secularism, lead us to fear this.
"Woke ideology is pure denial"
“Woke ideology is nothing but pure negation”: book review of the book “Understanding the Woke Revolution” by Pierre Valentin.
The conceptual imposture of gender
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.
Samuel Fitoussi’s “Woke Fiction”: An Exemplary Essay
Have you ever noticed that the world portrayed on screen in advertising, in movies, or on television looks less and less like the world we know? That now, in fiction, white people seem overrepresented among the bad guys? That female characters are often geniuses who face no obstacles, more gifted in every way than their male counterparts? And conversely, that men, especially when they are white and of a certain age, are systematically toxic?
For a left-wing anti-wokeism
Response from Nathalie Heinich to Simon Blin’s article in Libération.
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