Jean Szlamowicz : quand les mots empêchent de penser (avec Florence Bergeaud-Blackler)

☕ To support CERIF: https://cerif.eu/dons ✉️ The CERIF newsletter: https://cerif.eu/nous-suivre 🔗 Useful links: https://linktr.ee/cerifrerisme What if cultural battles were primarily battles of words? Why are certain terms—Islamophobia, patriarchy, systemic racism—now enough to close a debate without any need for argument? How did universities come to refuse to peer-review certain books “before even reading them,” and what do campuses chanting “Globalize Intifada” reveal about our own intellectual elites? Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, anthropologist and president of CERIF, interviews Jean Szlamowicz, linguist and specialist in the ideological uses of discourse. Author of The Sheep of Thought and *Sex and Language*, and co-editor of the journal, he analyzes how words shape our perception of reality, structure public debate, and become instruments of power. From inclusive writing to the "soft censorship" of the academic world, from foreign funding of universities to the Soviet roots of anti-Westernism, he shows how slogans have replaced arguments, and why, in his view, the West has internalized the discourse that disqualifies it. An interview on language, ideology, and the construction of intellectual conformity. #Szlamowicz #Language #Ideology #Wokism #University