Miguel Benasayag and the question of the “living”
The philosopher Miguel Benasayag argues, especially against transhumanism, that “the living” would always escape the artificial realm. Did he convince us?
24 November 2018
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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
Women and Mathematics: still a long way to go!
Why are there so few women in the higher reaches of mathematics? Review of this old and difficult question.
8 August 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
“Non-modern” zombies
The digital world produces all kinds of “zombies”, structures and organizations without consciousness. Here are some examples.
15 June 2018
China and AI: imperial!
Late 2017, China unveiled a National artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate an already successful digital politics: imperial!
24 March 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
AI and its shadows
Isn’t the fight against malicious uses of Artificial Intelligence just another pretext to strengthen the grip of Internet giants?
3 March 2018
Francisco Varela, the Heterodox
Autopoiesis, enaction and possibility of an artificial life … The lessons of the philosopher and neurobiologist Francisco Varela.
18 February 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