Reviving Entre La Cité et la Tour
I launched this newsletter when Elon Musk started dismantling Twitter. Now that he's fully accomplished his feat, it's time to revive my Substack. Here's the plan:
Bonjour/Hi,
It’s been a while, right? I neglected Substack, and hung out on LinkedIn, instead. But things are coming full circle, and it’s time to revive Entre La Cité et La Tour.
What is Entre la Cité et la Tour?
I launched this newsletter in November 2022, when Elon Musk started dismantling Twitter. Now, two years later, Twitter is effectively dead. After several waves of exodus, on Mastodon, Post, Threads and LinkedIn, it seems that we’ve settled on the butterfly app: Bluesky.
It feels good.
But in the past two years, I’ve grown accustomed to posting stuff that is slightly longer than 280 characters. Not much longer. I still treat it as micro-blogging—i.e., writing that is pretty instantaneous and over which I don’t fret. But I quite like the idea of micro-blogposts that are long enough to be substantive in and of themselves.
Since Bluesky doesn’t quite allow for this, I need somewhere else to do it.
Entre la Cité et la Tour is the perfect forum for that. As it names suggests, Entre la Cité et la Tour sits at the crossroads of academia (the proverbial Tour d’ivoire) and society (la cité). I want it to be a place where I can talk about the stuff I care about in a fashion that will be interesting for academics and non-academics alike. I even go so far as to pretend that I can reach both francophones and anglophones with this newsletter. (Google Translate does a very fine job, these days)
Entre la Cité et la Tour’s revival starts today.
In the next few minutes, you’ll receive a flurry of emails from me. These will be the LinkedIn posts that I haven’t shared here yet. Some will be in English, some will be in French—because like my readership, I'm neither fully Franco nor fully Anglo. But whatever the language, I think all of them are fairly universal in their content.
Once we’ve gone through this backlog, you can expect to hear from me more or less once a week. I hope you’ll stay on board, but if you don’t like today’s content, you may want to unsubscribe now as it will be pretty representative of what this newsletter will look like in the future.
If you decide to unsubscribe, bon vent! Otherwise, à bientôt!
Eve