Emergence of a digital natural environment
5G, satellite constellations… The digital network is mutating into a digital environment and, at the same time, is becoming a major geopolitical issue for the 2020s.
9 March 2019
Category: Mundus numericus
Fake news: legislate or educate?
A law was promulgated in France at the end of 2018 to respond to the inflation of “fake news”. What can be said today about this controversial subject?
16 February 2019
Adam Curtis and the strange world
Are we not locked in a static, “hypernormal” world? This is the strange proposition of British journalist Adam Curtis.
26 January 2019
About this delusion of a “green” digital world
Can digital be “green”? What about this “delusion” as the energy needs of the digital world seem unlimited and opposite to any will for sobriety?
23 September 2018
Homo Amazonus
A brief history of the past, present and future of this new consumer discovered in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, founding boss of Amazon.com.
30 June 2018
From the infosphere to a “gaseous” ethics
The philosopher Luciano Floridi proposes an “information ethics” supposed to lead us in a world transformed by the digital revolution.
17 March 2018
Manifesto
Puissance & Raison is a kind of “exploration notebook” about the new digital world questioning what resists, what capitulates. Here some insights…
10 February 2018
Our second natures
“Custom is second nature” said Saint Augustine. But towards what kind of “second nature” are we going with captology, the science of digital attention?
9 December 2017
Return to Babylon
A daring parallel brings us back to Babylonian times. Do our algorithms play a role comparable to the old clay tablets?
21 November 2017
Trevor Paglen along submarine cables
Invitation to follow the submarine cables with the artist Trevor Paglen and to explore the geography of the economic interests that they draw.
3 November 2017