On the disadvantage of being Russian
Diana Filippová
The conflict in Ukraine continues to occupy the minds of readers in this new literary season. Diana Filippováborn in 1986 in Moscow to a Russian mother and a Greek father, questions this Slavic part of her identity in her new work From the disadvantage to be Russian. While painting an uncompromising portrait of contemporary Russia, the novelist and essayist who arrived in France before the age of ten presents another side of her native country, that of the proscribed writers.
Albin Michel, in bookstore
Wagner. Investigation into the heart of the Prigozhin system
Lou Osborn and Dimitri Zufferey
The suspicious death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group, two months after he mutinied against Vladimir Putin, exposed the Kremlin tsar’s intentions to bring members of the Russian elite into line. With Wagner. Investigation into the heart of the Prigozhin systeminvestigators Lou Osborn And Dimitri Zufferey provide precise insight into what they believe represents a major threat to global stability and Western interests. Osborn is an independent investigator for the British NGO Center for Information Resilience and Zufferey is a journalist-researcher at Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) for the magazine Present time. The duo is a member of All Eyes on Wagner, a collective specializing in open source research and made up of journalists, cybersecurity analysts, lawyers and academics.
From Faubourg, October 24
Notice of storm
Andreas Malm
As we saw once again this summer, multiple environmental dangers also threaten our planet. Climate disruption in the light of natural disasters is featured in the Swedish activist’s latest offering Andreas Malm, Notice of storm. This theoretical manifesto from the author of Fossil fascismis intended to be a real counter-argument against inaction. In a warming world, it is important, more than ever, to distinguish the natural from the social, proclaims the activist. Thus, Malm examines a large number of contemporary texts which question the relationship between nature and culture. He takes the opportunity to provide an enlightening critical overview of contemporary theories such as constructionism, hybridism and neo-materialism.
La Fabrique, October 31
Superweak
Laurent de Sutter
Climate always. What if accepting our helplessness could save us? asks the Belgian Laurent by Sutter in his new titled offering Superweak . The precursor of pop philosophy and specialist in Deleuze offers an essay that reads like a philosophical investigation into the end of Reason as we understand it since the Enlightenment. The thinker calls for introspection, inviting us to make ourselves superweak in order to live again. A manifesto for a generation in search of ideals.
Flammarion, October 26
The cannibal elite
Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Finally translated into French, The cannibalistic elite, ofOlúfémi O. Táíwò, expert in mechanisms of social domination and rising figure in American philosophy. With his first work published in 2022, Reconsidering Repairs [inédit en français], the Georgetown University professor — with intimate knowledge of the black radical tradition — argues that reparations should be seen as a forward-looking project committed to building a better social order . Born to Nigerian parents, this time he explains how the powerful have appropriated identity struggles. The author recounts how identity struggles, at their peak in the 1960s and 1970s, were exploited by the elites by emptying them of their political substance and their liberating potential.
Lux, October 20