Breaking free from our political impotence

The question we should ask ourselves is the following: what do we actually do, in concrete terms, when we use the established modes of protest? Do we act? Or do we content ourselves with protesting, with expressing our disagreement — before going home? If protests change nothing — or if, in any case, they have no real effects, except in isolated instances —, does this not mean that traditional forms of action function as traps?

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (born in 1981) is a French philosopher and sociologist. He is the author of several books, articles and lectures related to social philosophyand politics, epistemology and criticaltheory, and the sociology of culture and intellectual life; He has a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault.