Archive for November, 2007
René Girard (author of Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and Violence and the Sacred) was just heard tonight in Radio Courtoisie (an extreme-rightist French radio station) chatting about how violent these times are, about how dramatic increase in abortion proves it, and about how this is a great demographic [...]
French police is building a network of undercover sneaks among civil servants working for other governmental services — such as the employment office or the social assistance — to serve Sarkozy’s anti-immigration statistics (see Doing Figures for a previous comment). Check that out:
“In a note issued on October 10, the police prefecture of Haute-Garonne explains [...]
In a era slightly characterized by the raise of “friendly fascism” (great concept borrowed from a classic) some have the nerve to go spotting the unfriendly. In a piece from the New York Review of Books, Sergei Kovalev points out some nasty evolution of the word “democracy” in Russia:
“Furthermore, even now, while “democrats” are seen [...]
Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins and Jim Black played some great tunes earlier this week at La Dynamo, in the northern outskirts of Paris. Earlier this month, Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra and Ikue Mori were heard playing amazing music at Le Triton, also uptown Paris. Well, in the great land of Seine Saint-Denis, to be [...]
Maître Eolas (already presented in One Darkest Page) makes here a couple of relevant clarifications about the controversial French law on immigration control, integration and asylum that was just passed after a few amendments (see also Them or Us and Some of Them). At the center of a heated debate on the law was a [...]
In a recent decision about the new law on immigration control, integration and asylum in France, the Conseil Constitutionnel (an institution that verifies that laws voted in Parliament are compatible with the French Constitution) rejected the parts in which the law authorized the production and use of official demographic statistics on ethnicity (some related blogging [...]
In “The Persuaders”, a great PBS Frontline documentary (first broadcast in 2004), we learned that fostering the use of “climate change” instead of “global warming” was a key achievement of some sort of political marketing (“warming” is bad, but “change” is cool). In a most interesting and controversial article titled “The Politics of Naming” (London [...]
This is also about the use of deictics (like in Them or Us). And about quotation marks. The Institut Montaigne, a French think tank, announces a conference to be held on Wednesday November 21 at AXA’s conference center in Paris. The announcement and program is available here. The title of the conference is interesting. It [...]
In a review of Geoffrey Lloyd’s Cognitive Variations, Ian Hacking mentions the following, in passing:
“The War on Terror supports research to design computer programs based on Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System, which will pick out in passenger queues the faces of people planning to blow up planes; Ekman’s personal website lists a project aimed at [...]
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