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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 26/04/2025

History does not vanish — it lingers, waiting for our vigilance or our silence. My new book confronts the quiet dangers of forgetting. Read it, not to be comforted, but to stay awake. joffreybaeyaert.gumroad.com/l/wkhceo) #philhist #BookSky #ebook #history #HistoryBookChat #philosophy

Front cover of the book: Remembrance and vigilance - vel d'hiv and the enduring logic of exclusion by Joffrey Baeyaert

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 25/04/2025

📖 Remembrance and Vigilance available on Gumroad joffreybaeyaert.gumroad.com/l/wkhceo #philhist #BookSky #ebook #history #HistoryBookChat #ukraine #25abril #philosophy

April 25th in Portugal.

A revolution without war.
Soldiers with carnations in their rifles.
A nation that said: enough.

On this day in 1974, Portugal toppled its dictatorship not with blood, but with music, marching, and collective defiance. The Carnation Revolution remains one of the rare moments in history where liberation arrived not through destruction, but through refusal—of fear, silence, obedience.

What does this mean in 2025?

It means remembrance is not static.
It means history is not a graveyard of dates, but a live wire through which we confront the present.

Vel’ d’Hiv was the opposite of April 25.
It was silence instead of song.
Obedience instead of resistance.
Administration instead of justice.

But both are part of the same question:
What is the threshold between duty and complicity?
When does a system protect—and when does it persecute?

April 25 reminds us that the gears of injustice can be stopped.
That refusal is also a form of construction.
That dignity is not granted—it is reclaimed.

The past does not repeat. It insists.
And today, it whispers:
"What will you do with your freedom?"

— Joffrey Baeyaert

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 24/04/2025

This book provokes, questions, and illuminates. Support my research: your purchase makes it possible for this intellectual journey to continue. #author #writer #BookSky #essay #history

I write to resist anesthetic language. I write because history does not vanish—it mutates. I write because even the most silent structures must be named. I write to resist simplification. I write to trace the fault lines. I write because silence, too, is a structure—and it must be studied.

Remembrance and Vigilance: Vel' d'Hiv and the Enduring Logic of Exclusion
From History to Responsibility: Deciphering the Structures of Persecution to Act in the Present

Now available on Gumroad - link in bio.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 24/04/2025

My new book is available "Remembrance and Vigilance: Vel' d'Hiv and the Enduring Logic of Exclusion" on Gumroad: joffreybaeyaert.gumroad.com/l/wkhceo #BookSky #ebook #history #philosophy

I’m Joffrey Baeyaert—writer, researcher, and strategist—working at the porous edges where memory, power, and classification converge. My trajectory is not one of specialization, but of sedimentation: layered, recursive, and quietly defiant of disciplinary borders. I began in the humanities—four years steeped in literature, philosophy, and history. I taught briefly, introducing students to the architecture of language and the weight of historical silence. But theory alone felt insufficient.

I was drawn toward the living systems of the world—toward biology, then marine ecology, and eventually into the tangled realms of data and algorithmic governance. From tracking sarks to dissecting machine logic, my work has always sought the same thing: to understand how systems encode values—and how, without vigilance, those values calcify into exclusion.

Remembrance and Vigilance: Vel’ d’Hiv and the Enduring Logic of Exclusion is my attempt to map a terrain we prefer to leave unmapped. Not to equate past and present, but to expose their structural rhymes. I write not to recount, but to confront: the bureaucratization of cruelty, the erosion of moral agency beneath the veil of procedure, the ease with which injustice can be administered with a signature and a silence.

I was born in France. Today I live in Portugal. I’ve worked in ecological research, data strategy, and AI ethics—moving across disciplines not to escape coherence, but to find it elsewhere. I wear suspenders. I trust questions more than answers. My work is eclectic, yes, but deliberately so—anchored in the belief that critical thought must be both rigorous and disobedient.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 23/04/2025

Remembrance and Vigilance, available now on Gumroad joffreybaeyaert.gumroad.com/l/wkhceo

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 22/04/2025

My new book is available in English: www.jobaeyaert.com/author-english

Now Available in English - Remembrance and Vigilance.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 13/04/2025

📘 Mon livre *Mémoire & Vigilance* est disponible. « L’Histoire ne se répète pas, elle insiste. » Ce livre est une tentative de lucidité. Une pensée debout face à l’oubli organisé. Un essai écrit en dehors des circuits. Sans éditeur. Sans institution. www.jobaeyaert.com/author

La page de vente de mon livre "Mémoire et Vigilance" sur Gumroad

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 01/03/2025

Europe’s strength lies in unity. Its leaders must stand firm with Zelensky—not just for Ukraine, but for the future of the continent. A fair peace isn’t appeasement; it’s justice. Now is the time for a Europe stronger, more united, and resolute in defending its values. #StandWithUkraine

The European Union flag in the background with a dove in the foreground

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 28/02/2025

Europe cannot afford to be a spectator in its own fate. Peace in Europe must be secured by Europe itself—through unity, strategic resolve, and a clear vision for the future. If others waver, Europe must lead. The stakes are too high for hesitation—or for tolerating Trump’s antics.

A dove in a cubic style, carved inside the European Union flag

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 26/01/2025

Elon Musk's support for Germany’s far-right AfD reflects a dangerous alliance between tech progress and nationalist ideology. By dismissing historical guilt and denouncing multiculturalism, Musk perpetuates exclusion and revisionism, aligning innovation with authoritarianism. We must resist.

Picture of the article entitled "Elon musk and the march of complicity" by Jo Baeyaert published on Medium

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 23/01/2025

Today, we must defend history. It is an act of resistance. Our duty is to protect our History from those who weaponize it. Without vigilance, history ceases to illuminate—it becomes a threat to our shared values. In the light of recent events, we must not forget.

Elon Musk, doing a Nazi salute during Trump's investiture ceremony.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 23/01/2025

Historical distortion and deformation destroy more than facts; it deforms our collective conscience and weakens our democracies. Restoring shared History, as it is due, an echo of our past and common memory, in its pain and nuance, becomes a critical collective duty.

Mussolini, waving his hand in a fascist salute, at a balcony in front of a crowd.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 23/01/2025

History is not a mere catalog of inert memories; it is a living force. It challenges us, reveals our contradictions. In an era of rising populism across Europe, it reminds us: there is no future without rememberance, without commemoration.

Adolf Hitler - surrounded by Nazis, exhibiting a nazi salute.

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 21/01/2025

After this inauguration ceremony, I think it is clear that in 2025, the warnings of history feel more urgent than ever. Authoritarianism is rising, democracy is clearly under attack. We’ve failed to act before, and the cost was unimaginable. Let’s not fail again. medium.com/@joffrey.bae...

A caricature of Donald Trump as ridiculous fascist with an eagle in the background - AI generated

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Jo Baeyaert @jobaeyaert.com · 15/11/2024

Casually scrolling the IG account of a photographer taking a picture of a woman. Folks, here is the top comment... 🤦

The background shows a woman posing for a picture. The foreground displays the top comment of a male saying "is she looking for an older man?" And this comment has already 106 likes.

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