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On the program for this Session: spotlight on the return of Donald Trump, media fog on the war in Sudan. But also award-winning and depressed people with long interviews around the first novels awarded in this literary autumn and an intelligent deciphering of the effects of depressive disorder. Finally, jumbled together, a hornet that drinks without moderation, a delightful gore film and an investigation into the murky waters of Water lilies by Monet. Happy listening ???? Pauline Petit
The zoom of the week: prizes by theme
Algeria of the “black decade”, working-class England, the peasants of Maracaibo and Rwanda after the Tutsi genocide. A baby abandoned on a sidewalk, cats hiding jaguars and a Kinyarwanda word that means both yesterday and tomorrow… Here are some places and secrets from the pages of the award-winning novels this fall. But what would a literary prize season be without criticism and legitimacy trials?
????️ “Houris”, Goncourt prize: the language of a woman, the words of an editorialist (Le Regard, 3 minutes)
???? Julia Deck, Medicis Prize: “Putting things into a story connects points of reality” (Les Midis de Culture, 26 minutes)
???? Rwandan reconstructions, with Gaël Faye, Renaudot prize (The Book Club, 58 minutes)
???? Miguel Bonnefoy, Femina Prize: “Literature is not for seeing, but for measuring the thickness of the shadow” (Les Midis de Culture, 28 minutes)
????♂️ Are literary prizes still legitimate? (Evening questions: the debate, 37 minutes)
It’s in the news
???? And now ? In the state of Georgia, a large number of women and Latin Americans voted for a sexist and racist candidate. A large part of the working classes also have chose the plutocrat candidate. Paradoxes now known, which are reinforced on the occasion of Donald Trump’s victory against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. ( France Culture goes further, 37 minutes)
⛓️ Free the academic. Victor Dupont, a French doctoral student, has been detained in Tunisia since October 19. He was working there on a sociology thesis on the trajectory of people involved in the uprising against Ben Ali in 2011, and while the current president, Kaïs Saïed, is accused of authoritarian drift. ( International Issues, 11 minutes)
⚔️ “No man’s land in the media“. In Sudan, several women have committed suicide after being raped by paramilitaries, as part of the civil war which is destroying the country. Massacres, rapes, pillaging… it’s “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world“, warns the UN. Why isn’t it more publicized? ( The International Press Review, 5 minutes)
⚖️ Judge the gear. The trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty opened last Monday, four years after the events. Six minors were sentenced in 2023 by the juvenile court. It is now a question of establishing the responsibilities of the adults involved in a terrorist affair like no other. ( Evening questions: the debate, 37 minutes)
To brood in the dark
Without moments of sorrow, there would be no happy ones, bad philosophers will tell you. Without sadness, there can nevertheless be depression. This is what psychiatrist Hugo Bottemanne sets out to demonstrate in the last season of Your brain : “Depression is not about sadness, it’s about psychological pain.“. From the sneaky symptoms of this illness to the effects of antidepressants to dispel a dangerously altered perception of reality, a podcast to better understand what depression really is.
???? Your brain, season 8: the effects of depression (6 x 10 minutes)
You have 5️⃣ minutes
???? Sweet nectar. Animals sometimes ingest ethanol found in fruits or fermented sap, but their tolerance to its deleterious effects is very limited. A study reveals that the oriental hornet is capable of metabolizing alcohol concentrated up to 80%, without risk. How does he do it? ( With science)
You have 9️⃣ minutes
???? For the beauty of blood. Screenplay Prize at Cannes, The Substance attacks fetishistic youthism which imprisons women in a captivating flow of hemoglobin. The gore allows its director, Coralie Fargeat, to embody “the violence felt in relation to this subject“. ( The Culture Point)
You have 5️⃣8️⃣ minutes
⛏️ Sabotaaaaage. From the end of the 19th century, sabotage was theorized as a workers’ practice. Far from being a simple degradation of the means of production, this act of subversion becomes a tool of trade unionism. For the love of a job poorly done… ( Do you hear the eco)
You have all night
????️ Other voices. It was a few nights before Trump was elected. We suggested that you listen to America from the margins. That of the “forgotten by capitalism” described by Howard Zinn in his Popular History of the United States. The one sung by Woody Guthrie in a protest song calling for “demolish the fascists“. That of the ghettos filmed by documentary cinema, far from Hollywood clichés. ( The Nights of France Culture)
It’s the end of the session. In SilenceEdgar Allan Poe describes water lilies reaching towards the sky “their long specter necks“, sighing with desolation… And if behind the beautiful and calm representation of these aquatic plants by Claude Monet was hiding a dark secret? This weekend, we offer you a visit to the Orangery transformed into a crime scene. See you next week ????
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