WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #357 - Culture: Read Alain Deneault: Faire que! Political commitment in the era of the unheard (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 A book not to read... to carefully avoid if you are depressed or

anxious. Alain Deneault's work has a major flaw, that of lucidity. ----
Anxiety, an apocalyptic picture of the human future on Earth, brief,
powerful and pertinent sentences: "It is no longer the proud human
subjects who are destroying everything, but the Earth system that is
going permanently haywire". ---- We are evolving in the "era of the
unheard". "Unheard of, never seen, unprecedented. We have not yet
managed to hear, see or say what is happening. To grasp a historical
moment comparable to no other, an impossible gesture.» «The rhetoric of
the discourse makers is overwhelmed before it can even reach its
conclusion» After having swept away the major subjects of the
biodiversity massacre, energy problems and the depletion of resources,
the author questions the political capacities for opposition and
proposal that remain. He denounces the inept and disastrous couplings of
sustainable development, green capitalism, so many "green" patches,
substitutes for a "deepening of the same model that led us to where we are".

Then comes the question, how to imagine a world in the making that
challenges us and for which our answers seem derisory and ineffective
for generations to come. The hour of the human being presents itself to
us that will lead us from anguish to anxiety. The more the deadlines
become clearer, the more the observations are verified. What seemed
distant becomes significant, obsessive. It is at this moment that the
speakers will enter into inaction, with soothing speeches, they will
marginalize, ostracize deviant objects, create scapegoats. The speech
will mutate, will turn green, in terms of resilience. "This appeasement
will anesthetize the mind enough...so that it forgets even the source of
evil."

The second part, which has nothing to do with Leninist dyslexia, a faire
que, remains to be discovered. A book to read, to think about, to
share... to meditate carefully especially if you are depressed or
anxious, it will give reasons to fight.

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Alain Deneault, Faire que! L'engagement politique à l'ère de l'inouï,
Lux éditeur, October 25, 2024, 216 pages, 18 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Alain-Deneault-Faire-que-L-engagement-politique-a-l-ere-de-l-inoui
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