Comments on: Political geology

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:37:48 +0000

I like French cuisine, fashion, Diderot and Camus. Throw in Sartre too. I admire the French their ability to assume a haughty air even in the face of facts. The Germans like them when they need to win a war and oh my gosh I forgot Bardot, Isabel Adjani and Simone Signoret. Paris is over-rated. Give me Prague or Stockholm !

By: roger

roger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:03:24 +0000

It is funny how the anglo media fell over themselves, when Sarkozy was running, to portray him as the oh so necessary French Thatcher, and Royale as either a stupid bitch or a rabble rouser. How’d that work out? Sarkozy does seem to have the lowest popularity rating of any French president I can remember, and Thatcherism, well, it doesn’t seem to be catching on now, does it.
Ah, French socialism. So academic. So out of touch with the innovative free market world we all so much enjoy.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:29:28 +0000

French socialism ? Well this is an academic blog…:-)

By: Amie

Amie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:18:21 +0000

Regarding political geology and France, there is a famous passage from Benjamin’s Passagenwerk. Paris, Vesuvius…

By: vivian

vivian — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:13:20 +0000

yes, a bit like the confusing conversations between Irish and American Republicans. Only it’s better in French.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:52:12 +0000

“Royalists” in the socialist party is is a not a concept that means what you would think it means…

By: roger

roger — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:27:32 +0000

ps – and meanwhile, Nu-Labour is looking for a few more crooked bankers to knight.

By: roger

roger — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:26:55 +0000

I’m feeling very sweet on Segolene this week. She went to Guadaloupe to the funeral of an assasinated labor union leader, she invoked the French revolution, and she even spoke out against neo-colonialism. The French Revolution! Maybe the ev il shadow of Furet is receding in France!