Season 11 · 18 May 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all- 1:37:36The astrophysicist who uses his expertise to claim that hunting and gathering are already the beginning of the end.
Appears in 7 videos · 9 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Dominique Pagani first mentions Aurélien Barrau in connection with the model of nature conveyed by the dominant ideology1. In 2019 he compares him with Pablo Servigne: Barrau seems to him more "convulsed", but he grants that he is a leading researcher2. What he objects to at that point is Barrau's call for unpopular measures, which he finds terrifying; in his view, nothing is more totalitarian than this discourse34. From 2020 on, he mainly returns to a thesis he attributes to Barrau: the fall of man, or the start of decline, would begin as early as hunting and gathering, which would already be a form of predation56. He sees in this a "delusional imaginary sliding of the cursor" and a nostalgia for Mother Gaia78. He also points out that an astrophysicist relies on his scientific competence to pronounce on this subject9, and he speaks of it in an ironic tone6.
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Aurélien Barrau (born 19 May 1973, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French physicist and philosopher, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He is the director of the Grenoble Center for Theoretical Physics, works in the CNRS Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC), and is a professor at the Joseph Fourier University (now the Université Grenoble Alpes). […]
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