Emmanuelle Hénin is a professor of comparative literature at the Sorbonne.
The symposium entitled "After deconstruction: rebuilding science and culture", organized last January at the Sorbonne by the College of Philosophy and the Observatory of Decolonialism, has caused much ink to flow. To date, more than forty press articles have been devoted to him, a good half of which denigrate him and are indignant that the Sorbonne could have hosted such an imposture: wokism does not exist, neither does cancel culture, everything this is a "fantasy", a "chimera". Forty articles prompted by a fantasy, that's a lot. The theory claiming that the anti-Covid vaccine injects nanoparticles into the brain to control it, for example, did not give rise to any symposium, a fortiori mobilizing more than fifty academics and the Minister of National Education. The "fantasy" in question would consist,according to our detractors, to invent from scratch an ideological convergence…
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