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When a nation is made against its origins: the whitening of Argentina and its blind spots

There are countries that build their identities on a pluralistic, sometimes conflicting, but assumed narrative. And there are others which, on the contrary, form themselves by subtraction: by swallowing up what disturbs, by minimizing what contradicts the national ideal, by relegating to the out-of-field the populations yet founders. Argentina largely belongs to this second category.

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Three voices, one conscience: Baldwin, Morrison, Coates or literature as a moral requirement

Tribute of a reader faithful to three pillars of American black intelligence There are works that do not read, but live. Works that are frequented for a long time, that are read from a distance from fashions, and that eventually structure our way of thinking the world. James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates ... Read more

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The Riddled King and his Court in Trance: Highly Flammable Pamphlet for Unreasonable Time

My dear counselors... come closer. Yeah, even closer. I want to feel your breath shaking. All right. Set up, fasten your belts, lock your common sense; He won't do anything here. Today I give you my vision of the world, a global, total, imperial, logical vision in its illogism, brilliant in its confusion, absolutely irrefutable since it comes ... Read more

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Senegal officially ranked "the most talkative country in the world"

DAKAR (AFP/BBC Africa) – The World Sound Organization (WHO2) has rendered its verdict: Senegal has just set a historic record. With an average noise level of 128 decibels per capita, the country is now officially recognized as the world's most talkative territory. A wave of speech detected from space According to the ... Read more

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Captain Zlorg's diary, or how I almost missed the most beautiful mistake of the Universe.

Day 4 239 877 of cosmic wandering. My reactors smell like comets, my circuits smell like dead slugs, and my morale is as dry as a carbonised silicate planet. I crossed a thousand galaxies, visited more than 8,600 planets identified by the High Council of Unnecessary Explorers, and guess what? All more welcoming than a ... Read more

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The Monty Python: Prophets of the Absolute and Architects of the Nonsense

When logic collapses, laughter becomes cathedral There are two types of humor in the world. The one who reassures, makes the family dinner smile politely, and the one who dynamizes certainties, pulvesifies conveniences and turns the human mind into a delusional playground. The Monty Python obviously belong to the second category. Born in ... Read more

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