Tuesday, July 01, 2025
It is so easy to become "color" blind!!!
Never
Forget Slavery
ONCE A
CHRISTIAN SLAVE IN MEXICO, NOT FOR VERY LONG!
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/never-forget-slavery-5b1cc509ebec
Colonial Blackness by Herman L. Bennett is trying to rebuild
the past of Mexico when it was using a lot of Black slaves. He is not so much
interested in their treatment under slavery, but what they became after slavery
and how they managed to get out of it fast and in great numbers. Manumission
was the main way for them to get their freedom back, and in Catholic Mexico,
manumission worked very well. You arrived a slave in Mexico, but many, though
we have no real data, did not die slaves.
The Catholic Church, both the Inquisition
and the Crown, imposed very strict rules about slaves having to be christened
and to become Christians with the necessary education to be able to take part
in the various rituals and services. The very first rule was slaves had to
marry, and that’s where Bennett found most of his information since slavery had
no archives and registries were fictitious. But religious or royal courts were
a lot more faithful and detailed.
It is this catholic policy that
considered the salves had been entrusted to Christians in Mexico for these
Christians to take care of them. Thus, they could not remain slaves very long
and they had to prove they were worth being freed. They had many occasions to
prove their worthiness: delivering and collecting messages, providing the
households with what they needed to just plainly live, hence go “shopping” or
rather “marketing.” They could also be used as a guarantee in some commercial
bargain.
Bennett insists on the fact that the
shift to Catholicism was essential for these slaves to know they were not
entirely and forever slaves. If they could be christened, if they could really
believe in Jesus Christ, they had some inner worth as individuals, as human
beings, as persons. The shift from African heritage or Indian heritage led the
Black slaves who married Indian women to shift their religious faith together,
simultaneously and reciprocally.
Open question: How did the Mayas shift
from Kukulkan to Jesus Christ?
Academia.edu Comment
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
Bennett did a pretty interesting research
there, though he did not specify how, for example, a Maya woman could shift
before marrying her slave Black husband-to-be from Kukulkan or Jun Nal Ye to
Jesus Christ.
Never
Forget Slavery
by Jacques
Coulardeau
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
11 Pages
History
of Slavery, * Spain, * Mexico, * Catholic
Church, * Manumission
Friday, June 27, 2025
Medea has been our mental monster for millennia
MÈRE
MONSTRE FEMME
MOTHER
MONSTER WOMAN
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/m%C3%A8re-monstre-femme-mother-monster-woman-bdfac37ef82f
Qui
es-tu donc, Femme au nom double et maudit, seule sur scène ? Pourquoi donc
hurles-tu ta colère, ta rage, ton désir sans fin possible de vengeance, et
surtout pas de justice ? Je suis Médée, comme la Gorgone décapitée de Persée,
comme la Kali, trayeuse de vie et de sang. Amante et mère, trahie et meurtrie,
jze clame mon errance depuis un Orient où je serait née, dit une trahison
iconoclaste de toute mythologie.
Who are you, Woman with
a double and cursed name, alone on stage? Why do you scream your anger, your
rage, your endless desire for revenge, and especially not for justice? I am
Medea, like Perseus's decapitated Gorgon, like Kali, the milker of life and blood.
A lover and a mother betrayed and wounded, I proclaim my wandering from an
Orient where I was born, says an iconoclastic betrayal of all mythology.
I would not advise using this play in class because it would explain to all students, even kindergarten kids, how to use knives to get what they want, and that is becoming a habit, a culture, an adventure in more and more French primary schools and some middle schools.
Je
conseillerais de ne pas utiliser cette pièce en classe car elle expliquerait à
tous les élèves, même de maternelle, comment ils peuvent utiliser des couteaux
pour obtenir ce qu'ils veulent, et cela devient une habitude, une culture, une
aventure dans de plus en plus d'écoles primaires en France et certains collèges
français.
Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper
The myth is betrayed with some monstrous hybridization
MÈRE MONSTRE FEMME - MOTHER MONSTER WOMAN
by Jacques
Coulardeau
2025 • Éditions La
Dondaine, Medium.com
6 Pages
Mythology, * Sigmund
Freud, * Infanticide, * Motherhood, * Womanhood
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Empalé sur une Kalashnikov, le pied!
GRAFFITI,
ÇA PROFITE,
LA
CHAUX VIVE, T2C GRAFFITÉ
Dans Les Petits Princes de la cité,
Laurent Mathoux dresse le portrait brut et poignant de deux adolescents perdus
entre rêves d’argent facile et ruptures familiales. À travers les trajectoires
de Diego (tué par une Kalachnikov de la drogue) et Elvis (tué par un obus
israélien à Gaza), il dévoile l’envers du décor des cités françaises, avec une
plume aussi vive que réaliste.
Un roman fort, sans concession, qui interroge nos regards sur la jeunesse, la
débrouille, et la difficulté d’échapper à son milieu. Venez découvrir une
histoire à la fois rude et profondément humaine.
Extrait Page 86 :
« Momo montra du doigt les jeunes qu'il avait
placés aux points cardinaux du carrefour.
Autour du charbonneur, il y a d'autres guetteurs.
Y'en a un là-bas, un autre là, et un ici déclara Momo en montrant du doigt les
gars placés aux points névralgiques du carrefour. Chacun reste dans son coin et
surveille sa zone. Hors de question de se regrouper et de discuter. Les groupes
de jeunes, ça inquiète les clients. C'est pour ça que je ne fais pas bosser les
potes ensemble. Ça forme vite une bande, ça chahute, ça fait les cons et ça ne
surveille plus rien. C'est comme ça que les emmerdements arrivent. Je paye et
tu bosses pour moi. T'es pas là pour rigoler, mec. T’as pigé ?
Intimidé, Diego acquiesça. »
Friday, June 20, 2025
Time Machine and New Speak lead to the Thought Police and Big Brother.
We are Living in a Dangerous
Multilingual World!
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/we-are-living-in-a-dangerous-multilingual-world-ad80357246eb
They
say Artificial Intelligence will solve that problem in a jiffy. They are
telling you a tall tale straight from Mark Twain’s trove. It may compare with “The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
Only
a maximum of twelve languages will be able to have an AI, hence translation
machines, because only them will have a big enough LLM to be able to produce
and train an Artificial Intelligence.
That’s
the positive element.
But
on the negative side, several (many) thousand languages will not be able to
have an AI, hence a translation machine.
The
real danger is the homogenization of AI-compatible languages and the
statistical customization of all languages on the pattern of these twelve
languages. You must be joking! On the model of only ONE AI-compatible language,
English, and all other languages will be in contact with this “English-Norm,”
and all languages will follow the AI-customized English that all machines, all
media, and all people will be repeating after the AI translation machine: “My
tailor is rich,” the first sentence of L'Anglais sans peine, the first work in
the Assimil method for learning English, written by Alphonse Chérel in 1929.
Is
that the future of humanity, or the bad nightmare of a cat lost in the jigsaw
puzzle of a supernatural spiritual Cat Country?
Or
maybe the Time Machine that will take us to paradise in a universe at least
three million light years away from this dirty earth, in whose mud we are
swaddling ourselves piggishly.
Academia.edu
Comment
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
Hominins
have always been migrating species, all the more with articulated languages,
from Black Africa to the Moon, and soon to Mars.
We are Living in a Dangerous Multilingual World!
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
13
Pages
Languages and Linguistics, * Contact Linguistics, * Borrowing, * Phylogeny, * Migrations
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
The Psycho Mechanisms of Movement
AIPL & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN
SORBONNE
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/paris-sorbonne-psychom%C3%A9canique-f676094b4a18
Je vous l’annonce. C’est pour tout de suite. Ne le manquez pas. IA en prime.
L’Intelligence Artificielle est à
l’initiale de l’AIPL, et en plus en anglais.
Que peut vouloir le peuple des
psychomécaniciens ?
Qu’on respecte un peu davantage
l’intelligence naturelle !
Mais c’est quoi ce charabia ?
La langue cosmique du Seigneur de
l’Univers des Anneaux
qui rit de nous voir UNDER THE DOME de Stephen King.
Geste(s) & Mouvement(s) en
sciences du langage : théories, représentations, applications
XVIIe colloque international de l’AIPL
12-13 juin 2025
Sorbonne Université, Salle des actes
17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris
https://aipl17.sciencesconf.org
4
Pages
2025,
Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
Languages and
Linguistics, * Language Variation and
Change, * Community Interpreting, * Phylogeny, * psychomechanics of
language (Gustave Guillaume)
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
To be a vengeful woman in the Far West is like suicide
THREE AVENGERS, SIX
VICTIMS, PLUS EXTRAS!
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/three-avengers-six-victims-plus-extras-92bb56b620d1
I am starting a full
coverage of about 12 films by or with John Wayne. I have hardly watched his
films at all in the past for various reasons, like killing Indians, and because
my late eldest brother only swore by them. He was a fly taken by the sugary white
caucasian racist crystallized approach of these primitive, if not barbarian,
Indians. It is high time to reassess this actor and his films. They are built
with a lot of stereotypes that target the Western public after 1945, and even
beyond. It was an essential cultural apparatus targeting that public to enable
the USA to play a leading role in the world.
True Grits is symbolic
of ultimate crimes with the number three of the Christian Trinity, and the six
– maybe seven, who knows, the Holy Week? – victims lying down in the dirt like
a yellow Star of David, abandoned by some Auschwitz “tourist” that had no
return ticket. Not easy to be a woman in this world and to look for vengeance,
which is unacceptable in any decent world of decent decency. The Trinity again.
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
To be a girl in the Far
West was like being an elephant in a glasshouse. It breaks or it takes, but it
takes a lot more than plain charm.
THREE AVENGERS, SIX PLUS EXTRAS
by Jacques Coulardeau
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
Criminal Justice, * Violence, * Cowboys, * John Wayne, * Vengeance
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Nothing better than an English crime story
BRIGHTON, GRACE, AND SORDID
CRIMES
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/brighton-grace-and-sordid-crimes-f0ea13d27de0
You will necessarily
think of The Who and their opera Quadrophenia set in Brighton.
Quadrophenia Alley is a
must-visit location for any fan of British pop culture. Nestled in the vibrant
city of Brighton, this small alleyway holds significant historical and cultural
value due to its association with one of the most iconic films in British
cinema – Quadrophenia.
The History Behind
Quadrophenia Alley
In 1979, director Franc
Roddam brought The Who’s rock opera ‘Quadrophenia’ to life on screen. The film
tells the story of Jimmy Cooper, a young mod struggling with his identity
amidst societal pressures and expectations. A key part of this narrative was set
against the backdrop of Brighton – a town which was central to Mod culture in
Britain during the 1960s.
The narrow alleyway now
known as Quadrophenia Alley gained prominence when it featured prominently in
several scenes throughout the movie. In particular, it served as an atmospheric
setting for some pivotal moments between lead characters Jimmy (Phil Daniels)
and Steph (Leslie Ash).
(Thanks https://explorial.com/sights/brighton-quadrophenia-alley/)
But the music is
original in the series. Composed by Matthew Slater, it has little to do with
Quadrophenia. Even if the opera should, could and would deserve a comeback and
a second production, slightly updated. The Mods and the Rockers are vastly
passé, déjàvu, stale, though they still exist under different costumes for
those who fit the norm and those who counterfit it, or vice versa.
BRIGHTON, GRACE, AND
SORDID CRIMES
4
Pages
2025,
Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
Police Science, * Crime, * Brighton, * Dickens Bleak House
Literature English Letters Identity Construction Documents, * Escape
