“Digital Divide”: outline of a concept
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
12 February 2022
Category: Mundus numericus
Man in his new digital environment
A reading of Philippe Descola
How can the work of anthropologist Philippe Descola, “Beyond Nature and Culture”, be applied to our digital world?
13 November 2021
Welcome in the Metaverse
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
14 August 2021
The “progress” unveiled by Photography (with Henri Van Lier)
Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)
17 July 2021
The hypothesis of the “Robot Person”
Can and should autonomous “intelligent” artifacts be held responsible for their decisions? Should a new legal subject be created?
1 May 2021
Tristan Harris and the Swamp of Digital Ethics
Addictions, fake news, breaches of privacy … Can the “ethical” offer of digital professionals remedy these drifts?
6 February 2021
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
Gilbert Simondon, “philosopher of information”?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
2 May 2020
Attachment to Simulacra
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.
11 April 2020
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 2019