Macron

Emmanuel Macron · President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017 · 1977

Appears in 73 videos · 107 passages, 7 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani sees Emmanuel Macron less as a person than as a function: a "puppet" that capital "pulled out of its hat", and that finance will replace with someone else, funded by the same people1. He places him in a continuity running from Giscard to Hollande and Mitterrand. He makes him the culmination of the "extreme centre": calling oneself both left and right, and setting progressives against populists, amounts to eliminating any alternative2. He points to words that have been twisted: the "war on finance", a book titled "Revolution", the "sad passions". He links him to the destruction of public services, including hospitals and schools3. As early as 2021, he predicts that the far right will rally to him; in 2024, he notes that Bardella talks like him4. From 2022 on, he stresses the war against Russia and pacifists being called "capitulators". He also speaks of the failure of his policy in the Sahel, where he considers him discredited5.

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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016. Macron previously served as Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014 and Minister of Economics and Finance from 2014 to 2016 under President François Hollande. […]

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Talks · 16 May 2026Mali: a response to Emmanuel Macron's remarks at the Africa Forward summit

4:23He is ironic about his contrite air of a humanist attached to Africa.
21:57He cannot ignore who finances the rebellion in Mali.
29:38His regret at not having demanded more development is hypocritical: France had every power and did not do it.
33:50"You are too nice": irony about the African names given to the bases.
39:42He is completely discredited in Africa, from South Africa to Algeria.

Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024Too late?

18:03A puppet; France no longer has an autonomous foreign policy.
1:29:11Called the pacifists "defeatists" between the two rounds.

Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence

7:28His letter rules out the Nouveau Front populaire and puts LFI and the far right on the same footing, while his associates dine with the RN.
29:58His letter appeals to "reasonable people," neither far left nor far right.
1:01:24"The wedding of Macroute and Bardeluche announced fifty years ago."

Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 2)

9:32Calling oneself of the left and the right eliminates any alternative: it is him or chaos.

Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 1)

14:35RevolutionElected with a book titled "Revolution".
18:15Trained in financial, political, and commercial marketing.
48:26A small bank executive pushed forward by business circles; competent in mergers and acquisitions, but contrary to our interests.

Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus

1:37:13A puppet tasked with waging war on Russia and passing the pension reform.
1:44:48Elected because he was "cute."

Talks · 23 May 2026Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?

43:56The last and most harmful segment in the destruction of public services.
1:25:11"We are at war," a phrase taken up by Bardella.

Cycle 14 · 28 Feb 2026Their “Europe” means war

28:33For the far right, even Macron would be a leftist.
45:46In November 2024, he declares that pacifists are defeatists.

Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification

24:40If he leaves, another will come, funded by the same people.
43:33Relies on Ukraine and the Baltic states, sites of the worst massacres.

Cycle 13 · 15 May 2025Imaginary identity

1:02:41Derisory, unless our children are called to war.

Talks · 7 Feb 2025Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68

1:10:05Turned away by African countries such as Mali.

Talks · 2 Dec 2024Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning

27:15Wanted ECOWAS to wage war on Niger.

Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self

6:07Denounced "sad passions" to show he has read those who speak of Spinoza.

Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle

41:22Refuses a Prime Minister drawn from the extremes, yet dinners at the Élysée have brought together Le Pen and Bardella.

Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?

4:52Associated with Bardella in the updating of Clouscard's text.
32:19Called the camp of peace capitulationist.
37:56No point fixating on him: he is only one moment in a continuity.
46:01Bardella now speaks like him.
2:19:06The furthest right of the three, because he is in the extreme center.

Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject

29:30At the head of the warmongering surge.

Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?

46:45It is allowed to grow toward the sending of troops.

Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

3:21Wanted to have Africans wage war on Niger, as with Ukraine.
17:50His media denounce the junta while France overthrew the founders of the independences.
49:59Backtracking of the ambassador they wanted to keep in Niger to justify an intervention.
54:05Sends troops before consulting Parliament, which is unconstitutional.

Cycle 12 · 28 Feb 2024Clouscard by you: answers to your questions

2:02:43Does not rule out sending troops to Ukraine.

Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?

21:02The far right calls him a leftist; "Macron, get out" in the streets of Niger.

Cycle 12 · 22 Dec 2023Birth and carnage: the Massacre of the Innocents

2:10:55Social benefits cost "crazy money."

Cycle 12 · 17 Oct 2023Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?

38:16He contrasts progressives with populists: the right that thinks itself left.
1:33:16Emerges from Hollande's sleeve, himself descended from Mitterrand.

Cycle 11 · 7 Aug 2023Niger special: should we “blacken the corpses”?

45:11He complained that his special services had not seen anything coming.

Cycle 11 · 22 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”

2:05:56Replaceable: finance, which pulled him out of its sleeve, will find another.

Cycle 11 · 9 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?

11:13Heard him say that one must not have only sad thoughts.
1:38:32Counts himself among the progressives while dismantling the hospital and the school.

Cycle 11 · 29 Jun 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative

1:07:29Goes further in the direction of the dominant ideology than Sarkozy and Hollande.

Cycle 11 · 18 Mar 2023A springtime of the peoples?

16:34He must not be personalized: capital pulled him out of its hat.

Cycle 11 · 3 Mar 2023War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism

1:00:39Called a leftist by certain pro-Russian anticommunist parties.
1:20:48Uses the State apparatus to impose "reforms."

Cycle 11 · 17 Feb 2023Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war

11:46Declares in Munich that the time is not for negotiation and that Russia must be defeated.
50:16His refusal of peace with a nuclear power leaves public opinion indifferent.

Cycle 11 · 28 Sept 2022And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire

2:03:20Had said NATO was brain-dead.
2:13:52Elected by a small share of registered voters.

Talks · 14 Jul 2022From Plato to world revolution

54:47Example of the centrist compromise that the philosopher does not make.

Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions

1:59:06His executive would be less popular in France than the Malian regime is in Mali.

Series · 20 May 2022Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics

12:06Cited in connection with the idea that the left has only betrayed recently.

Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)

1:36:55The debate is reduced to the Macron right versus the far right.

Cycle 10 · 27 Jan 2022#8 Philosophising under threat

4:44His policy south of the Sahara has just suffered a double blow, in Mali and Burkina Faso.

Cycle 10 · 8 Dec 2021#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)

18:54He accelerates the placing of the state apparatus at the service of the private.
45:20The Poujadist far right will rally to him at the most acute moment of the crisis.

Series · 17 Nov 2021Left-washing: are the woke the most asleep?

32:08He has just toughened the compensation of the unemployed.

Cycle 10 · 22 Sept 2021#10.1 The eternal irony of the community

29:25Target of the anarchists, in the example of the common point between opposites.

Series · 20 May 2021Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle

41:53He dreams of replacing public education with private agencies.

Series · 31 Mar 2021“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?

1:15:21In case of crisis, the Rassemblement national would side with him.

Cycle 9.2 · 17 Mar 2021#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard

1:25:52Supported by Cohn-Bendit.

Cycle 9.2 · 7 Jan 2021#9.11 How can sciences of history be real?

11:56His re-election serves as an example of a statement about the future, possible but not yet real.

Cycle 9.1 · 6 Nov 2020#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia…

49:13He puffs out his chest before Erdogan, just as two-faced as he is.

Talks · 6 Oct 2020Calves and Things (3): the dictatorship of the bobotariat

26:50His "at the same time" evoked ironically.

Talks · 5 Oct 2020Calves and Things (2): ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?

14:30His executive prescribes dominant ecology.

Talks · 4 Oct 2020Calves and Things: the preface

15:04His upcoming environmental "bash," a blessing for MEDEF.
16:47Appoints a High Commissioner for Planning even though there is no plan anymore.

Cycle 8 · 17 Jul 2020#14 Return to the logics of the subject

1:15:48A figure of bourgeois cosmopolitanism.

Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020#11 Return to the logics of the subject

1:05:54Culmination of the "extreme center."

Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude

1:16:19Under him the destruction of hospital beds and of tolerated criticism accelerates.

Cycle 7 · 27 Mar 2020#1 Harnessed to confinitude

58:20Its retreats obtained through struggle can be swept away in the name of the crisis.

Cycle 6 · 30 Jan 2020#6.4 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism

42:40The media blame the standstill on the strikers, not on him.

Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism

11:48Wants to bring Germany into the UN Security Council.
41:49Opposes progressives to populists and reactionaries.

Cycle 6 · 23 Oct 2019#6.1 The logic of the subject

1:27:31Compared to Pyrrhus speaking of the victims.

Talks · 29 Sept 2019The religion of money

1:05:00His directives reduce the resources of the public sector: an example of the state apparatus.

Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)

8:25He moves between center left and center right; Atlanticist.

Cycle 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019#5.8 Nature or landscape?

51:28The announcement of an "equilibrium age" for pensions.
1:30:19"Take the buses" in the face of railway investment.

Series · 2 May 2019Michel Foucault

17:39Cited among the Atlanticists.

Series · 12 Mar 2019Pablo Servigne

1:42:11School teachings without history.

Talks · 13 Feb 2019Hegel and the yellow vests (part 1)

50:40Targeted by the demonstrator in the report.
1:12:13According to a participant, the only one to express the societal level with his debates.

Cycle 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019#5.4 Introduction: nature or landscape?

20:14Transposition of the formula "is it a riot? – no, it is a revolution."

Cycle 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought

18:39Invoked with regard to the price of gasoline.

Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)

57:31Endpoint of the sequence from Giscard to Macron.

Talks · 6 Oct 2018On Marx

16:21His discourse on energy is cited in relation to the dominant ideology.
40:42A puppet in a sequence on privatization already mapped out before him.

Talks · 2 Jul 2018The Phenomenology of Spirit

28:09An avowed disciple of Ricœur, presented as the product of an accumulation of experiences of sense.

Talks · 12 Jun 2018In conversation with Bernard Friot (1 June 2018)

1:13:09According to Friot, his project of unifying the schemes into individual accounts belongs to the capitalist practice of work.
1:48:31According to Friot, he will win if no one says that retirees work.