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Was Pierre-Andre Taguieff a Situationist?
Hi-

We need reliable source citations as to whether Pierre-Andre Taguieff was, in fact, a Situationist. By this, we mean:

- Did he politically identify as one back in the 1960s and 1970s? How about afterward? - Was he, in fact, close to Rene Vienet? If so, what was their intellectual and political relationship? - Was he ever a member-activist (or organizer) within the Situationist International? Or was he a sympathizer/sympathiser?

According to Reflections on Anti-Semitism, chapter 4 ("The New Inquisitors"): Pierre-André Taguieff was close to the Situationists at Nanterre. Source citation: Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan and Ivan Segré Foreword by Shlomo Sand; Translated by David Fernbach. Reflections On Anti-Semitism (Kindle Locations 315-316). Verso. Link: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1110-reflections-on-anti-semitism?fbclid=IwAR263A6tYbdLUqghanWTelpzxX-sYSyP5sYRya6c6dzRXiiUOKSMnpCwg3U

Also, concerning Taguieff's political orientation(s) and transition, Enzo Traverso wrote in this Tuesday, July 26, 2011 article for International Viewpoint: "According to an intuition formulated at one time by Pierre-André Taguieff – who has today gone over, lock, stock and barrel to the neo-conservative Right – the contemporary racist discourse has undergone a veritable metamorphosis, giving up its hierarchical and “racialist” orientation (according to the old model of Gobineau, Chamberlain, Vacher de Lapouge or Lombroso) to become differentialist and culturalist." Link: https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2223

Thanks.

Stephen Cheng.