Canceled. Reflections on cancel culture [PAPER]

“While social networks have allowed more individuals to speak out and different realities to finally be named, it seems that the discursive terrain is increasingly undermined. We have never been able to express ourselves so freely, and yet we feel that communicating ideas has never been so complex and risky. »

It is with this nuanced starting point that journalist Judith Lussier attempts to understand cancel culture. This essay examines this complex phenomenon with vague contours which sometimes sows panic and fuels numerous chronicles, without sparing a reflection on the power dynamics which dictate its trajectory.