Not so long ago Gilles Deleuze called for a charter among intellectuals, writers, and artists, in which these individuals would state their refusal to be domesticated by the media. He also proposed the creation of groups of production that would be able to establish connections between those who have a creative role and people who have neither the means nor the right to speak: "The advantage would be to separate those who claim to be authors, members of schools or commercial ventures, who sell their narcissistic film, their interview, their broadcast and the state of their souls-the present shame-from those who dream of something else. They do not dream, that is something you do alone…."
The International Parliament of Writers is a very strange institution, compared to most parliamentary assemblies.

Christian Salmon
International Parliament of Writers
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