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
Tagged: hubris
Hubris, technological power, financial power, will to power…
Technology between sideration et radicalization
Investor Marc Andreessen has just published his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” which, like Technology itself, does not fail to stagger us.
11 November 2023
The Informatization Age (2) Process
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s welcomed a new technical system in line with the so-called “Process Philosophy”.
5 August 2023
Biotechnologies, Eldorado of the century
After “intelligence”, whose technological fate seems to have been settled, the “living” is now in the line of sight. But at what cost?
8 July 2023
The Proof by Googol (2) Numbers and Mathematic
Mathematic threads numbers without any limit, up to infinity and beyond. Ultrafinitism, by refuting this “right”, isn’t it mistaken?
11 March 2023
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
Elon Musk, special vassal
Elon Musk acts like a feudal lord, vassal of the technological system. Will we be resistant enough to live in the “territories” conquered by this tough guy?
23 May 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