Charlie Hebdo, Mona Baker

The Red Flag and the Tricolore by Alain Badiou

May 30, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media

By Mike Watson / 03 February 2015 Alain Badiou analyses the events of the Charlie Hebdo attack in their global and national contexts, making the case for the incompatibility of the red flag of communism with the Tricolore of French national identity. 1. Background: the world situation Today the figure of global capitalism has taken over the entire world. The world is subject to the ruling international oligarchy and

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Alain Badiou, Charlie Hebdo

The Limits of Satire

January 18, 2015 Mona Baker Translation

Tim Parks The New York Review of Books What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Recent events in Paris inevitably prompt these questions. In particular, is the kind of satire that Charlie Hebdo has made its trademark—explicit, sometimes obscene images of religious figures (God the father, Son, and Holy Spirit sodomizing each other; Muhammad with a yellow

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cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, freedom of expression, Joe Sacco, satire, Tim Parks