Archives of language - 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

According to some researchers, the largest chatbots somehow “understand” the texts they handle. What exactly does this mean?

3 February 2024

In 1944, physicist E. Schrödinger set out his thoughts on the structure of life in a book entitled “What Is Life?”.

14 October 2023

The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s welcomed a new technical system in line with the so-called “Process Philosophy”.

5 August 2023

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

Mathematic threads numbers without any limit, up to infinity and beyond. Ultrafinitism, by refuting this “right”, isn’t it mistaken?

11 March 2023

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

5 November 2022