Condoleezza Rice

Summary

Dominique Pagani almost always brings up Condoleezza Rice as a counterexample. A Black woman, she nonetheless organized or supported, alongside Bush, the war against Iraq and its bombing campaigns12. From this he draws a thesis that he repeats from 2012 to 2021: identity does not solve the political problem, and identities must not be held sacred3. In a session on Michel Clouscard, he cites her to show that the "societal" costs capital nothing: putting a Black woman in power changes nothing about a policy of aggression4. In the "Musicosophie" sessions, he invokes her against bourgeois feminism56 and describes her as a "hawk" responsible for the starvation of Iraqi girls7. He also attributes to her the phrase "forgive Germany and punish France"8.

1. 1Money, work, freedom3 Aug 2019 · 35:31
2. 2#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?4 Mar 2021 · 53:14
3. 3#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 41:26
4. 4Everything is allowed but nothing is possible: Michel Clouscard (2)29 Jan 2012 · 16:25
5. 5#8 Happiness and unhappiness in music11 Jan 2021 · 1:59:35
6. 6#13 Mozart restored2 Feb 2021 · 1:13:03
7. 7#4 Sound ghettos3 Dec 2020 · 29:49
8. 8#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 1:42:44

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