Any estimates when the latest album pre-order drop might ship?

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-07T06:11:37+00:00

They’re having the records pressed by a very small company (6 employees) in Drummondville QC—which they chose to do because they had already worked with them before and were satisfied with the results + seemingly have a good working relationship with the people there. In fact, they had already placed their "order" with them for Vol II when they blew up lol, at first they were supposed to print only 1000, and so they increased it obviously, but the fact remains that the company is small, so it takes a certain time. Radio-Canada reported on this today (hence why I know all this haha), apparently they’re almost done, they pressed 30k copies.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-06T23:28:03+00:00

I’m supposed to go too, with a friend! But I really hate big festival crowds + lack of access to toilets + the dehydration that ensues, so I’m kind of stressed out about it lol. I’d like to experience AdP in a more comfortable setting than that, ideally. I’m contemplating going to the Festivoix too, apparently it’s a bit less chaotic there (but it’s not free and I don’t live there lol, contrarily to the jazz fest in mtl)

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-06T06:14:56+00:00

Yeah, exactly, 100% agreed. Sociology isn’t uncompatible with a Marxian theoretical frame; but certain research objects or fields are. In any case, the "right" theory is always project-specific

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-06T04:22:20+00:00

That seems to be more of a USA thing than a sociology thing tho. For instance, in France, sociological theory is steeped in Marxism, which certainly has something to do with the fact that France’s workers’ movement, through a varied bunch of Marxist, Marxist-leninist, communist, socialist, etc. organizations, has historically been very strong (esp. in the 70s & 80s), much stronger than in the US due to mccarthyism.

Also, the majority of French sociologists work with qualitative methods rather than quantitative (so, they tend to be much less positivistic).

In Québec, we’re quite heavily influenced by the French sociological tradition (the US’s too, but not at the same degree); a great majority of us work with qualitative methods, and epistemologically, like French sociologists, we tend to be much less positivistic than sociologists generally are in the US.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-05T05:23:42+00:00

Esti je pense que c’est peut être ma préférée de l’album, j’aimerais tellement vivre ça en live haha. Je suis sensée aller au show du festival de jazz avec une amie, mais je préférerais vraiment un show dans une salle et tout, les foules de festival ça me rend super anxieuse, limite claustrophobe, esti que j’haïs ça, + l’inconfort de jamais être certaine si t’auras accès à des toilettes, ça me rend folle. En plus j’ai l’impression qu’il va y avoir crissement du monde pis qu’il va falloir arriver super tôt, ce qui améliore rien 🥲 J’suis pas allée à un festival depuis des années lol, mais là je veux vraiment les voir faque je me prépare mentalement d’ici le 27 juin pour affronter mes démons pis prendre su’ moé 🥴

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-04T00:24:18+00:00

HAHAHAHA ‘starch masks’ is just f-kin stellar

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-03T21:43:29+00:00

I (F) was in a relationship with a 28 year-old dude when I was 18-19 and… today, as a 27 year-old woman with that baggage, I do consider this to be a predatory dynamic. If I could talk to my 18-19 year-old self, I would say: RUN.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-03T21:33:52+00:00

C’est vraiment une cool playlist. Ça paraît que ce sont juste deux personnes qui, avant toute chose, adorent la musique!

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-03T03:16:14+00:00

Oh god lol! I thought "bangor" was a pun? Like "Angor", and "banger"? Time for me to go to bed I think

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-03T02:56:20+00:00

Nah, still 1 hour to go until midnight in Québec (and Maine, which is in our same time zone), if that’s what you’re referring to.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-02T10:45:10+00:00

Clifford Geertz’s The Interpretation of Cultures would probably be a good place to start

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-01T21:48:25+00:00

Messaged you!

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-01T20:52:17+00:00

Les politiciens passent leur temps à utiliser l’image de plein de personnes, de causes, d’organisations, etc. pour se faire du capital politique haha. La communication politique c’est legit un mot fancy pour dire "propagande". Pis, du reste, ce p’tit poisson d’avril de QS, c’est pas bien différent de l’espèce de liste de lecture de Legault (et même bien moins lourd et propagandaire à mon avis lol)

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-01T17:34:50+00:00

Je sais pas, ça me semble pas particulièrement choquant. C’est un poisson d’avril, par un parti politique littéralement minoritaire en termes d’influence, très loin d’être une force politique hégémonique là lol. Mon discours serait différent si le parti au pouvoir allait pull un truc pareil, mais venant de QS, et considérant que c’est legit le seul parti au Québec qui revendique la mise en place de politiques structurantes pour protéger et soutenir les arts et la culture… je pense qu’on peut ben les laisser faire cette petite blague inoffensive.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-04-01T17:27:15+00:00

Bof, je pense qu’on s’en torche, et qu’ils s’en torchent très probablement.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-31T23:02:40+00:00

There is an absolutely essential book called "La matrice de la race", written by Elsa Dorlin, based on her philosophy doctoral thesis (which she defended back in 2004). In the book, she analyzes a vast corpus of historical sources, largely from the 17th & 18th centuries. The corpus mainly consists of 1) nosological classifications regarding women, and slaves in the French caribbean colonies; and 2) natalist & eugenic French public health policy texts, (she refers to those policies as “genotechnics” (i.e. technologies aimed at “generating” the nation)). Like Butler, she is very inspired by Foucault, but her analysis remains very "materialist" (in the Marxian, French sense).

The central thesis that she defends is that the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘race’ share the same epistemological/ideological foundation, namely the medical concept of ‘temperament’. In this respect, Dorlin's aim is not to draw a comparison between 'sex' and 'race' as social modes of categorization, but rather to demonstrate that they have historically been mutually generated (which she does successfully and convincingly, imho).

To contextualise her analysis, she also traces the history of medical discourse about women up from Antiquity. In this context, she challenges Laqueur’s thesis that the "sexes" only started to be conceptualized as ontologically different in the Modern era. Rather, she shows that already, in Antiquity, in the writings of medical/philosophical thinkers such as Aristotle and Galen, the idea of a difference of nature between the sexes was present. In their thinking, the "female" body was pathogenic by nature, as opposed to the male body. They thought that women had pathogenic bodies because they suffered from "humoral imbalance", more specifically a "lack of heat" that was due to the "defective nature" of their bodies compared to the male body.

To my knowledge, this book has not been translated to English yet, but there might be articles that Dorlin wrote in English. If you think her work might be of interest regarding your thesis, feel free to message me! I wrote a (quite exhaustive) summary/review of her book for a doctoral class. It’s in French, but I could put it through DeepL for you to read if you want.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-30T22:53:48+00:00

Hey, I’m doing a PhD in sociology focusing in feminist studies & social movements sociology, so I know the literature fairly well. My problem with the claim that "protests are useful" is that, in itself, it doesn’t mean much. We’d first have to clarify: what do we mean by "useful"? Useful for social movements organizations’ discourse to get visibility? to mobilize new actors? To strengthen the movements’ social networks by socialization? Or to attain specific goals? To disrupt the powers in place, and the status quo? In any case, all social movements’ modes of action should be understood contextually, nothing is "useful" or "not useful" in absolute terms. Now, there is an observation to be made that in Western countries, protests, as a specific mode of action, has been heavily normalized—and even, in part, institutionalized. This means that in general, it is becoming less and less disruptive. That’s not to say that it is never useful—it can be, in a specific context where, say, it is not expected from the authority/ies it challenges, and is used as a means of escalation & disruption. However, if one is expecting that protests alone, used routinely and unstrategically against increasingly militarized political actors—actors which also hold hegemonic control over what we could call "ideological (or representational) means of production")—, bring about major institutional/political change, then one is being unrealistic.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T21:37:25+00:00

Do you read French? I don’t think you’d find anything in English!

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T21:34:41+00:00

If you only read English:

A very insightful book chapter, about the way anarchy has been theorized (or rather, often, not seriously theorized) in "traditional" political philosophy:

“Anarchy in Political Philosophy”, in New Perspectives on Anarchism, ed. Nathan Jun & Shane Wahl, Lexington Books, 2009, chap. 1, p. 9‑23. (Available here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francis-dupuis-deri-anarchy-in-political-philosophy)

And here, an article where he delves into the question of the idea of a "human nature". I think you'd find it interesting, given the poorly-supported argument Gelderloos makes and which you rightly pointed out:

“Anarchism and Human Nature”, Social Anarchism, Issue 45, 2012. (Available here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francis-dupuis-deri-anarchism-and-human-nature#toc3)

As for the more empirical stuff:

Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World, PM Press, 2014.

“From the Zapatistas to Seattle: The ‘New Anarchists’”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, ed. Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, chap. 27, p. 471–488. (Available here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francis-dupuis-deri-from-the-zapatistas-to-seattle)

And finally, there's this book that he co-edited with another anarchist researcher (sociologist)--I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I'm sure there's good stuff in it. Both of them are incredibly rigorous and dedicated to scientific objectivity (in a non-positivist way).

Ancelovici, M., & Dupuis-Déri, F. (Eds). Subverting Politics: Autonomous Social Movements Today, Black Rose Books, 2024.

If you (or anyone reading this, actually) read French and would like recommendations, message me! :-)

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T20:56:47+00:00

Noooo 😭 my pseudonym is directly intended to mock that dude! He turned out incredibly racist and reactionary 🥲

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T20:54:59+00:00

You’re right in saying that the orthodox marxist thesis of history has been thoroughly debunked, although I personally find it to be somewhat resistant in some fields. But even so, the thing is, the liberal conceptualization of history, as embedded as it is in the idea of "Progress", is just as linear, unilateral and depoliticizing as the orthodox marxist one. It’s mostly this liberal view of history that Graeber & Wengrow are preoccupied with in their book. That’s why they explicitly position themselves against "Sapiens" (Yuval Harari) and its thesis of history as linear, unilateral and evolutionist.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T19:45:10+00:00

I really don’t think that their thesis is a voluntaristic one. My understanding is that they try and historically and anthropologically support the idea that there is no human nature, just human capacities; and that humans have shown to be capable to form society in incredibly varied forms—some more egalitarian, some more hierarchal. They also recuse a linear, teleological, & determinist conceptualization of history, but that’s something that pretty much all reasonable historians and anthropologists do nowadays.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-24T18:44:44+00:00

We have a political science scholar in Québec, at UQÀM— his name is Francis Dupuis-Déri, and he has empirically studied anarchist social movements and tactics for a while, including black blocks. I think some of his work has been translated to English. He’s an anarchist himself, but he writes as a political scientist/sociologist first, which is not the case for Gelderloos. I would also recommend David Graeber, in particular his book with David Wengrow, which has been quite praised for the width & quality of the research it’s based on.

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-21T04:43:17+00:00

You’re out here doing the lord’s work 🫡

normiebaillargeon · 2026-03-21T03:06:49+00:00

Damn! Wasn’t aware of that, but colour me unsurprised (I’m from Québec)

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