Centralisation et rigidification des rapports de pouvoirs

Discover the new session of the "Accumulations and accelerations: Computer totalitarianism" seminar with:

•  Nicolas Alep, computer scientist, co-author of Contre l'alternumérisme. Pourquoi nous ne proposons pas d'écogestes numériquesˮ ni de solutions pour une démocratie numérique, La Lenteur 2nd ed. 2023 (prix J. Ellul 2023)

For Hannah Arendt, "totalitarianism does not aim for a despotic reign over men, but towards a system in which men are superfluous, a world of conditioned reflexes, of puppets without the slightest trace of spontaneity." However, by outsourcing many human faculties and activities, computing – falsely termed digital – precisely tends to render the human being and their subjectivity superfluous.
 

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