Bertille Bayart: "The absurd trial in neoliberalism"

2023-05-30T18:21:17.563Z

Highlights: Justine Triet, crowned with the Palme d'Or, took advantage of her platform to denounce a "domineering power" The power has also jumped with both feet into the trap, retorting on the theme of ingratitude. Our artists remind us of the words of Jean-François Revel about the intellectuals of his time. "One is struck," he wrote in La Connaissance inutile, by "their conformism, their lack of originality as a social group"

CHRONICLE - Neoliberal, the France? This is a strange diagnosis in a country that employs 5.7 million civil servants and whose redistributive power of income is extraordinary within OECD countries.

Not that. Not there. Not in front of Jane Fonda! On the stage of the supposedly international Cannes Film Festival, the director Justine Triet, crowned with the Palme d'Or, rewarded us in mondovision with a moment of French folklore, those we are used to for the ceremonies of Molièresou César. "The commodification of culture that this neoliberal government defends is breaking the French cultural exception," scolded the heroine of the evening, taking advantage of her platform to denounce a "domineering power". Which power has also jumped with both feet into the trap, retorting on the theme of ingratitude. Ah, you see! The "power" refuses to contest! What a bore that this show so... agreed. Our artists remind us of the words of Jean-François Revel about the intellectuals of his time. "One is struck," he wrote in La Connaissance inutile, by "their conformism, their lack of originality as a social group."

The French artist recurs in front of "neoliberalism"...

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Source: lefigaro

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