La vie humaine réduite à des processus instinctifs ou machinaux

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

•  Fabienne Martin-Juchat, professor of communication sciences at Grenoble Alpes University, co-editor of L'industrialisation des émotions : Vers une radicalisation de la modernité ?, L'Harmattan 2016

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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