CHRONICLE – Every week, for Le Figaroour columnist takes an ironic look at the news. Today, he imagines the daily life of a media sociologist, between lessons on domination in Monet’s still lifes and a crusade against the political recovery of – certain – news items.
10 hours. I go to the University of Nanterre, where I give courses in the sociology of art (I specialize in the analysis of systems of structural domination in the still lifes of Claude Monet). I head to the classroom where I am supposed to teach, but none of my students show up. I then remember that I gave them two weeks of vacation so that they could recover from the appointment of the far-right Catholic Bruno Retailleau to the Ministry of the Interior. Mental health is a major issue of our time. I take it very seriously.
12 hours. I am invited to the Franceinfo set to enlighten the French on the troubled times we are living through. I will first provide an analysis of the situation in the Middle East: Israel flouts the aspiration of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian mullahs to live in peace. We then approach the theme of recovering a news item through extreme…
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