Archives of art - Puissance & Raison

Cantor’s Body (a reading of Grundlagen)

The mathematician Georg Cantor published “Grundlagen…” in 1883, a major text of which we propose another reading.

27 July 2024

The Oulipo invented the “constraint” to create new literary forms. Can such a method be applied to Digital “forms” and how?

5 November 2022

Neuromimetic AIs can now write, draw, compose music… Far from being “conscious”, what do they tell us about being human?

1 October 2022

Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)

17 July 2021

Is art, “hacked” by artificial intelligence, just a new product of design? Or could “AI-art” one day come across insolence and spirituality?

16 June 2019

Are we not locked in a static, “hypernormal” world? This is the strange proposition of British journalist Adam Curtis.

26 January 2019

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

We gladly provide our measurements to the “Big Calculator”, even if this narcissistic desire is accompanied by anxiety.

9 July 2017