Is the University Burning? — Eli T.’s funny account of a recent debate/performance in Paris that the audience found insufficiently radical, such that they ended it with firecrackers and a half-hearted call to occupy the Sorbonne.
We want Godard, Proust, the Princess of Cleves, not commercial trash culture
Let us burn the university! No! The University is not for profit! It is there to create more freedom, more riches (that are not material), “Latin is useless and that’s why it’s beautiful!” against the death of “dead languages”, let us burn the university! In the name of all erasmus students, I would like to say I had no time to write a speech, because I work to pay my way and so we say “let us burn the university”!
