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Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

New Books in Language

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Cloud Living Strauss' Rethinking of Kinship

I think especially in France right now when it comes to the fact that there's this thing they call Lou Wokism right so wokeism where they think like some of this ideas about intersectionality and race and gender come from the US from Anglo Saxon countries. And I think it's way more complicated than that so like assigning a nationality to like a specific approaches is very dishonest. Yes, I think I really appreciate this, you know kind of unpacking of how theories neither French nor American it reminds me a lot of like contemporary debates in both sides of the Atlantic.

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