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AbstractThe aim of this article is to re-evaluate the possible applications of the notion of cultural representation from the perspective of the sociology of the intellectual. First, we cast a critical regard over the theoretical and methodological tools developed over the years by the sociology of the intellectual with the implicit aim of promoting a group of intellectuals who would assume the collective function as representatives of culture. Second, after an analysis of a text of Michel Foucault, we propose a decollectivisation of the role of the intellectual and the function of a cultural representative in order to better comprehend how the intellectual can come concretely to enter into the system of truth/power in postmodern societies. Last of all, we attempt to apply this analytical framework to the case of a collective of three Québécois intellectuals who are currently the object of a judicial prosecution by two Canadian mining companies for having accused them, in a work published in 2008, of crimes and embezzlement in Africa.
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