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The Disembodiment Machine (on Nicolas Berdyaev)
What happens when a philosopher, armed with good reading, finds herself caught in an abusive—yet ordinary—airport search? The result is a profound meditation on the voluntary servitude that accompanies modernity like its shadow…
Apr 228 min read


From One Plato's Cave to Another... Reflections on the Society of the Spectacle, Mediatization, and Totalitarianism
Recent years have exposed us not only to mass propaganda, but also to its shamelessness: it no longer hides, it asserts itself, it flaunts itself, it claims its own status as information prostitute. Minds that have seen these crude maneuvers, for example, those of the actors we regularly find in crisis situations, have emerged from a first Plato's Cave.
But what happens to them afterwards?
Dec 9, 202410 min read


La Licorne - The Unicorn: why this name?
With La Licorne (the Unicorn), it is the birth of a new scriptural adventure...
But why this strange, fantastic name, which seems to come from a child's imagination?
Ariane explains everything to you...
Dec 7, 20242 min read


Ordinary Totalitarianism: Solutions and Actions
A criticism was recently leveled at Antipresse: we do not propose solutions; our findings are purely descriptive and analytical—and therefore depressing—because we provide neither remedies nor action for readers. I wanted to respond to this remark based on my own reflection and personal experience.
Oct 6, 20248 min read


Ordinary Totalitarianism: In Search of Lost Truth
The media do not act as transmitters of information, but as places for chatter, including many so-called alternative media, which are beginning to function in a manner identical to the mass media: like the sidewalk across the street, in short, from the official media.
Sep 29, 20248 min read


Ordinary Totalitarianism and Performative Language
Confusing words with actions is a sign of regression into childhood, specifically into magical thinking. But when this magical thinking becomes the way adults operate, and a collective one at that, we are facing a seriously ill society.
Sep 22, 20248 min read


Ordinary totalitarianism: trauma, amalgamation, lies
When periods become totalitarian, the truth is mostly present in what is not named. We must always question what is being shown to us in an obvious way and what is being hidden from us.
Sep 15, 20248 min read


"I too am in Arcadia"
Arcadia was a mountainous region of Greece located in the center of the Peloponnese Peninsula, bordered to the east by the Aegean Sea. It was named after Arcas, a mythological king. The Arcadians were considered the first inhabitants of the region. For bucolic Latin and Hellenic poetry, Arcadia represented the golden age, the ideal country. Arcadia is notably mentioned by Diotima the priestess in Plato's Symposium.
Sep 1, 20248 min read


Our animal friends
The poetic feeling of innocence, Ariane Bilheran is convinced, is created in childhood, and it is nourished by the kindness shown to animals. The animal shelter she runs is a haven not only for these innocent creatures, but also for the human soul.
Aug 18, 20249 min read


The Olympic Games of Psychic Regression
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26th was widely discussed, making my article published on Sunday seem almost anachronistic, as if it belonged to the last century. What I take away from it here is that the much-feared attack did indeed take place, but in the form of an indecent assault, carried out from within and by those in power themselves.
Aug 4, 20248 min read


Paris under the Olympic Games, or the city of King Ubu
The cost of these Olympics is unreasonable, no decision holds water, everything becomes perfectly illogical to the point that the only rationally plausible explanation is that of an additional experiment in social control and a test of submission among the population.
Jul 28, 20248 min read


Circles of denial (2/2): obsolescence of the law and paranomôn
Nowadays, "parliamentary immunity" allows members of parliament to escape the consequences of their actions. In ancient Athens, it was exactly the opposite: by proposing an inadmissible law, one put one's own life on the line... Is it any wonder that our regimes, deprived of any checks and balances, descend into chaos?
Jul 21, 20249 min read


Interview of Ariane Bilheran for the "Cahiers de Psychologie Politique" on the psychopathology of totalitarianism
This work is masterful, because in a few pages, Leo Löwenthal manages to paint the finest psychological portrait I know, especially for his time, of atomization in a totalitarian period, that is to say, of the role played by terror in transforming the individual into an isolated and desperate cell at the heart of a large mass. This German sociologist and philosopher, linked to the Frankfurt School, who emigrated to the United States to flee Nazism, was aware of the cancellati
Jul 19, 202423 min read


Circles of Denial (1/2): Delusional Contagion and the Obsolescence of the Law
Unlike the Colombian people among whom she lives, Ariane Bilheran notes that the French constantly demand their dose of illusions. Recent outbursts of collective hatred and hypocrisy vividly illustrate this addiction.
Jul 14, 202410 min read


The Consolation of Philosophy
If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.
Jul 7, 20248 min read


Why I started teaching Latin again
The study of an ancient language as an antidote to modern-day loss of reason and totalitarianism? It may seem frivolous, but... From the origin of words to the structure of thought, Latin offers us a veritable arsenal of defense against mental decay.
Jun 30, 20249 min read


What happened to Reiner Fuellmich?
Infiltration and stalking by the secret services, arrest in Mexico on charges as diverse as they are provisional, betrayal, solitary confinement: the founder of the Grand Jury was spared nothing. The persecution of Reiner Fuellmich speaks volumes about the decline of the rule of law in Germany and the West. We take stock with Ms. Virginie de Araújo-Recchia, dated June 19, 2024.
Jun 23, 20249 min read


Empedocles and delusional hatred
When we lose our bearings, when values are reversed, and when civilization is going through intense turbulence, it is always relevant to return to the works of the Ancients, to the very origins of what founded our humanities. The thought of Empedocles, diverse and abundant, gives us in particular a key to understanding our era of hatred — and also of awakening!
Jun 16, 20249 min read


Sexualization of children, back to Freud
If there is one figure who inflames minds and unleashes passions, it is Sigmund Freud. The "father of psychoanalysis", who has been called a charlatan, a Zionist, an occult magician, an incestuous father, and so on, leaves no one indifferent. In France in particular, he is credited with the discovery of "infantile sexuality".
Jun 9, 20248 min read


Child Sexualization: The sophism of "Sexual Rights"
Thus, as incredible as it may seem, the entire "declaration of sexual rights", which is now being rolled out by the WHO, in the name of "sexual health" (a linguistic misuse on which there would also be much to say), is based on a sophism which has distorted the logic of reasoning in order to better manipulate public opinion.
Jun 2, 20248 min read
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