I know, three plane crashes, Ebola, the Ferguson case and bloody ISIS are far more preoccupying that what I develop in this Cosmo paper, yet they reflect my present mood, trying to run away from a world obviously ill and mad! Yet believing that education remains the key.
Marseille (about to be) revisited
After a rather cocooning break, I'm ready to hit the road again from Switzerland to the South of France, towards cosmopolitan Marseille and its Côte Bleue, half a century after my parents and grand-parents landed there from across the Mediterranean...is it a coincidence?
“I wouldn’t dignify this question by answering it”
Comment traduiriez-vous "I'm not going to dignify this question by answering it"? C'est la question du jour de mon chroniqueur favori, le toutologue Philippe Meyer.
California, Hong Kong and multicultural perspectives
Whether we admit it or not, we are all multicultural and better address as a cohesive society the unease and backlash we experiment at present. Reading Renford Reese's novel has been an eye-opener for me and I share it in this post.
The Day before….
Tomorrow is the beginning of a year's adventure across the world. It starts with a sociolinguistics conference in Berlin and two events in LA...but this is only a beginning....
Vincent Peillon et autres bonnes feuilles
Je salue à ma manière la nomination de Vincent Peillon en m'empressant d'ajouter...Pourvu que ça dure!!!!
Imagination and Achievement
France, my country, has a new president...Following a nasty campaign which left me an ugly impression of mutual hatred...So President Sarkozy, whose heritage is clearly foreign and who chose for the first time in history Ministers of all walks of life and political background was suddenly a little Pétain...I felt sad, not because I liked … Continue reading Imagination and Achievement
De la Civilisation…cosmopolite!
Civilisation est un terme récent remontant à 1756 dont le sens est à l’origine juridique. Il découle de civil, “jugement qui rend civil un procès criminel”.
Kaddish pour Henry
A mon très cher et très regretté Henry Bulawko, né en Lituanie, déporté à Auschwitz et mort à Paris le 28 novembre 2011 au terme d'une vie riche et bien remplie dont la Shoah fut un passage marquant, certes, mais qui ne saurait le résumer malgré sa fidélité et son dévouement inlassables à faire connaître la Honte du XXe siècle.
Hessel, S. (2011). Indignez-vous, Indigène Editions.
A booklet in France created a big fuss. Written by a prominent human rights ambassador, it insists on the necessity for all of us to rebel.
COSMO POLITIQUE 