An academic involved in protests alongside the Yellow Vests offers her analysis of history in the making

Alternating between a theoretical analysis of neoliberalism and introspection about her mode of engaging with it, Barbara Stiegler recounts how, in December 2018, she who had never before taken part in any protests came to don a yellow vest. For this philosopher, this completely unexpected and often misunderstood movement is a glaring sign that the globalization's happy promise as touted by the reigning neoliberal order no longer fooled those it had left out. An immense labor of rebuilding is now essential.