Notre belle université
A few months ago, Baptiste Coulmont posted a sarcastically titled video called “our beautiful university” that testifies to the squalor and physical deterioration of a university campus in the south of...
View ArticleMilitant student slogans and iconography in Toulouse
Last week while I was in Toulouse, I went to take a look at the local university (Mirail), to see if it turned out to be the one in the video I posted about last week. And indeed there were a large...
View ArticleParis-Toulouse: Militant universities and the military parade on Bastille Day
Knowledge is a weapon! … The union is a force! This is the continuation of my last post about the visual culture at the University of Toulouse (Mirail). Just having seen the 14 Juillet, i.e. Bastille...
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