Archives of number - 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

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

11 March 2023

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

1 October 2022

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

Late 2017, China unveiled a National artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate an already successful digital politics: imperial!

24 March 2018

Puissance & Raison is a kind of “exploration notebook” about the new digital world questioning what resists, what capitulates. Here some insights…

10 February 2018

Liu Hui, 3rd century Chinese mathematician, overcame one of the first mathematical “monsters”: the irrational number.

19 August 2017

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

9 July 2017

The internet companies found how to transmute the free time into economic time. This phenomenon must have a quantitative law.

18 June 2017