Indeed, the euro will survive only if every country confronts the choice it shies away from. Like some dreadful joke, the euro needs French reform, German extravagance and Italian political maturity.
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6 mai - Affrontements au Quartier Latin
Following months of conflicts between students and authorities at the University of Paris at Nanterre, the administration shut down that university on 2 May 1968. Students at the Sorbonne University in Paris met on 3 May to protest against the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre. On Monday, 6 May, the national student union, the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF) — still the largest student union in France today — and the union of university teachers called a march to protest against the police invasion of Sorbonne. More than 20,000 students, teachers and supporters marched towards the Sorbonne, still sealed off by the police, who charged, wielding their batons, as soon as the marchers approached. While the crowd dispersed, some began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat for a time. The police then responded with tear gas and charged the crowd again. Hundreds more students were arrested.
On reading his ‘Confessions’ we say to Rousseau what he wrote to Voltaire: ‘I do not like you.’
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From Camille’s notebook (via ohmycamilledesmoulins) Oh, Camille, that ascerbic wit of yours… |
The violent racialism to be found in Europe today is a symptom of Europe’s exaggerated nationalism: it is an attempt to justify nationalism on a non-nationalist basis, to find a firm basis in objective science for ideas and policies which are generated internally by a particular economic and political system, and have real relevance only in reference to that system…science and the scientific spirit can do something by pointing out the biological realities of the ethnic situation, and by refusing to lend her sanction to the absurdities and horrors perpetrated in her name. Racialism is a myth and a dangerous myth at that.
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Julian Huxley and A.C. Haddon, We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems (1936), quoted in Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (New York: Vintage, 1998), 103.
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Usually I felt pretty cool when I got the to point of actually understanding something by Frederic Jameson or Judith Butler or whoever, but it was a hollow satisfaction that was more about feeling smart enough to decode their absurd language than it was enlightenment from the actual content.
Damian, y u speak my mind better than I can? Get. Out. Of. My. Head.
(JK. Please don’t.)
Thanks for the link, dirtyferrets.
Dr. Joseph Souberbielle (1754-1846) the doctor of Robespierre and Desmoulins and a juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
I FOUND IT. AN ACTUAL F*(&*ING PHOTOGRAPH, GUYS. :O
Wow. I had no idea he survived Thermidor. Well done.
This too shall pass
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huh. who knew? |
