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Le XIXe siècle a été l’âge de la question sociale ; le XXIe est l’âge de la nouvelle question géo-sociale. S’ils ne parviennent pas à changer de cartes, les partis de Gauche ressembleront à des buis attaqués par la pyrale : il ne restera d’eux qu’un nuage de poussières bonnes à brûler. La difficulté, c’est que pour trouver les principes qui vont
... See moreBruno LATOUR • Où atterrir ? (Cahiers libres)
reduce the scope for people to meaningfully participate in shaping their lives and communities. We will call these threats “centralizing”.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
These liberal, egalitarian approaches sought and seek to equalize opportunities by criminalizing discrimination, remedying disenfranchisement, and defeating bigotry by making prejudice on the grounds of immutable characteristics socially unacceptable. They thus provide an achievable goal for the well-meaning liberal individual: treat people equally
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Sur le plan politique, il avait reçu la confirmation que le phénomène démocratique constituait la clé de l’avenir, qui permettrait de libérer la créativité et l’énergie de la société et, dès lors, ne manquerait pas de s’imposer en France et en Europe. Sur le plan intellectuel, il s’engagea dans un travail de compréhension du phénomène démocratique
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
The project of feminism is, in part, a method of calling into question ‘the natural’.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
10 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
part of the difficult, essential work of unruliness is shaking the status quo so thoroughly, so persistently, so loudly that everyone—even the very women behind that agitation, many of whom have internalized the understandings they fight so tirelessly against—can see their value within it.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
“That the proliferation of a multiplicity of competing publics is a step away from greater democracy. “It follows that public life in egalitarian, multicultural societies cannot consist exclusively in a single, comprehensive public sphere. That would be tantamount to filtering diverse rhetorical and stylistic norms through a single, overarching
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