The Web radio "Esprit Occitanie" has given itself the mission of providing its listeners with avenues for reflection, possibly keys to understanding the world, to open up and decompartmentalize thought, to offer other plural perspectives, and even - this is important - moments of pleasure and relaxation.
Quality, professionalism and creativity, these are the key words that guide the work of this radio station and those who make it ...
"Esprit Occitanie" sees programs on various themes - economic, social, philosophical, societal, historical, political, medical, literary, musical…. - so that our curiosity at your service accounts for Others, their diversity and these differences which enrich us.
The web radio "Esprit Occitanie" responds to a reflection and an observation inherent in the state of our changing society. A disturbing new era has opened, defined by Pierre Nora as "The archipelago of society, the confinement in its own identity, the birth of new radicalities deaf to argument, to discussion, to reason. We are witnessing an atomization of curiosities favored by the generalization of digital technology ”.
We are witnesses to the fragmentation of our societies, to the confinement of many in circles offering the same ideas, relaying information confirming a certain vision of the world. Added to this are the increasingly pronounced tendencies to manipulate information, to disinformation, to the desire to shape the thinking of public opinion. Well helped in this by the "screens" which rob us of our available brain time and infuse us with ideas, models or other opinions of which the least we can say is that they do not contribute to raising the intellectual level of the world. 'Humanity.
So many maneuvers made easy by a world that has become more and more complex, in permanent and rapid change, an uncertain or even dangerous world, shaped by ideas, movements, protean interests. Our societies are affected by a weakening of the very notion of Culture, as well as by a dangerous loss of the diversity of thought, which sees each one shut himself up in his universe, no longer participating in collective life, all leading to l 'emergence of cognitive layers which overlap but no longer intersect, except to confront each other more and more violently.
Faced with this, some of whom we are have chosen to resist and fight these deleterious tendencies with modesty and humility but determination.
The creation of the generalist radio station "Esprit Occitanie" with a cultural vocation is therefore part of this process.
This radio takes its time to get to the bottom of the issues, and do so through broadcasts in sometimes long format (minimum thirty minutes, usually an hour). She makes her work available to listeners through a library of podcasts, allowing them to choose their themes and listen to them where and when they want.
The consumption patterns of radio media have evolved considerably and live broadcasts are less and less followed. The fault lies with the mobile phone, the screens and stressful living conditions where the constant rush to ever faster no longer allows serene and reflective listening.
As Georges Steiner rightly puts it, "our time is both isolation and frenzied gregariousness, from this mixture is born the comedy and the despair of our time. "