René Viénet vs. the Catholic Maoists / some comparative Sinology / cultivating rivals
It’s difficult to write a capsule biography of René Viénet. Each entry in the timeline invites digression into intellectual and personal disputes that lasted for decades.
From a working class family, he went to study Chinese with Jacques Pimpaneau at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes. This put him in touch with the Situationist Interna…
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