Information technology would be totalitarian - why?

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

• The educator and sociologist Fabien Lebrun, PhDs from the Universities of Caen and Bordeaux III, author of On achève bien les enfants. Écrans et barbarie numérique, Le Bord de l’eau 2020

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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