Every time I hear the word «wokism», it makes me hungry. Everyone puts their imagination to it and puts what they feel like in it, according to the inspiration of the moment.
Next January, Le Regard Libre will be ten years old. It will soon be a decade since a small team of editors brought this volunteer journalistic project to life, month after month. Despite a modest subscriber base, which is growing slowly but surely.
Recent events have been punctuated by strange debates about sex and gender, reminiscent of theological quarrels about Adam's navel. However, these controversies have an origin and an internal logic that this article aims to outline.
On March 2, an episode of «Temps présent» evoked the subject of «gender transitions». Entitled «Détransition, ils ont changé de sexe et ils regrettent» ("Transitions, they've changed sex and they regret it"), the program - which didn't fail to spark controversy - had the merit of breaking a taboo.
An anti-woke crusade by the SVP to launch the federal election campaign, difficulties in defining wokism, the reality and importance of the moralistic phenomena it describes... This movement from across the Atlantic is the talk of the town, and seems to be crystallizing a major new divide.
ChatGPT software doesn't analyze or synthesize, nor is it creative, but generates «a credible follow-up to a given text». The result can then be adorned with the trappings of human intelligence. This is enough to arouse fears and anxieties.
Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. Youtuber Ralph Müller, a doctoral student in literature at the University of Geneva, delivers his scathing analysis of a typical contemporary phenomenon.
Almost thirty years after the massacres of the Order of the Solar Temple, a documentary series takes an in-depth look at the human reasons behind the tragedy. A story enriched by archives and never-before-seen eyewitness accounts, it lifts the veil even further on sectarian horror.
In 2022, Le Regard Libre introduced thematic dossiers, a revamped website and a mobile app. Two keywords stand out for 2023, which also promises to be a very important year: new reading space and major events.
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