François-Bernard Huyghe (5 August 1951 – 1 September 2022) was a French essayist and political scientist. He served as director of research at the (IRIS) and was president of the .
Life and career
The son of writer
René Huyghe, François-Bernard earned a
doctorate
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in political science from
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University in 1983 and a
Habilitation
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in communication studies from
Stendhal University
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in 1996. According to and , he joined the
Ordre Nouveau and the
Groupe Union Défense. He collaborated with ''
Défense de l'Occident'' during the 1970s, and became director of ''Jeune nation solidariste'' in 1977. In 1999, he vocally opposed the
Kosovo War
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and signed the petition "Les Européens veulent la paix", initiated by the far-right pro-
Serbia
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n collective "Non à la guerre".
Huyghe was married to journalist , who died in 2014. He died from
cancer
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on 1 September 2022, at the age of 71.
Publications
*''La Soft-idéologie'' (1987)
*''La Langue de coton'' (1991)
*''Les Experts ou l'art de se tromper de Jules Verne à Bill Gates'' (1996)
*''Histoire des secrets : De la guerre du feu à l'Internet'' (2000)
*''Images du monde'' (1999)
*''L'Ennemi à l'ère numérique, Chaos, Information, Domination'' (2001)
*''Les Coureurs d'épices'' (2002)
*''Écran/ennemi : terrorismes et guerres de l'information'' (2002)
*''Les Routes du tapis'' (2004)
*''Business sous influence'' (2004)
*''Quatrième guerre mondiale. Faire mourir et faire croire'' (2004)
*''Comprendre le pouvoir stratégique des médias'' (2005)
*''La Route de la soie'' (2006)
*''Maîtres du faire croire. De la propagande à l'influence'' (2008)
*''Contre-pouvoir. De la société d'autorité à la démocratie d'influence'' (2009)
*''Les terroristes disent toujours ce qu'ils vont faire'' (2010)
*''Terrorismes : violence et propagande'' (2011)
*''Think tanks : quand les idées changent vraiment le monde'' (2013)
*''Gagner les cyberconflits : au-delà du technique'' (2015)
*''Désinformation : les armes du faux'' (2016)
*''Daech : l'arme de la communication dévoilée'' (2017)
*''Fake news : la grande peur'' (2018)
* ''Pourquoi combattre ?'', directed by Pierre-Yves Rougeyron,
Leafted ''Pourquoi Combattre ?'' with authors
Cercle Aristote, Éditions Perspectives Libres
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** Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual persp ...
, Paris, Janvier 2019.
*''Dans la tête des Gilets jaunes'' (2019)
*''L'Art de la guerre idéologique'' (2019)
*''Fake news, Manip, Infox et Infodémie en 2021'' (2021)
*''La bataille des mots'' (2022)
Awards
* (1994)
* (1994)
References
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1951 births
2022 deaths
21st-century French non-fiction writers
French essayists
French political scientists
Academic staff of the University of Poitiers
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
Stendhal University alumni
Writers from Paris
Deaths from cancer in France