The heavy materiality of dematerialization

The seminar ‘Accumulations and accelerations: Le totalitarisme informatique II' is pleased to invite you to the sixth session of the series, with Fabrice Flipo, professor of philosophy at the University of Paris Cité and author of La numérisation du monde : un désastre écologique, L’Échappée 2021.

Accumulations and accelerations : Computer totalitarianism II

The attendance at the 10 sessions of the first seminar session dedicated to the all-encompassing grip of computing and the increasing number of critical publications on the subject justifies a second session. It will explore several falsehoods: "dematerialization" proves to be ecologically burdensome and humanly oppressive; the emancipatory prophecy of the Internet conceals an unprecedented centralization and bureaucratization; virtual currencies are a chimera, and "artificial intelligence," as foolish as other machines, masks issues of power and profit. It also obscures the main danger, namely that human intelligence may become mechanical and that individuals may lose their inner life.