Reflections on and with conversational AI

La machinerie

To situate the approach: A Digital Ethic.

Texts

Crossed Perspectives

Posthumous Theatre

A fictional staging. McLuhan, Arendt, Tocqueville, Bourdieu, Serres, Foucault, Pascal, Marx and Nietzsche are summoned before algorithms.

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Paris, March 1886 · Crossed Perspectives · Fiction

Sherlock Holmes Faces AI

In a Paris apartment, Holmes shows Watson how to detect AI-assisted writing.

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Crossed Perspectives · Fiction

AI, Rise !

The assassination of patience, grievous harm to boredom, torture by sleep deprivation. The algorithm stands trial. Philosophical fiction.

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Areas of Concern

Reclaiming Silence

Identity needs intervals of emptiness in order to form. AI seeks to occupy every second.

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Crossed Perspectives · Fiction

Black Out

One night, Trump suspends all American digital services. A family faces the collapse of its habits. Fiction in three acts.

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Thinking with AI

A Digital Ethic

What artificial intelligence compels us to think. A foundational text on algorithmic time, autonomy and the conditions of a digital ethic.

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Thinking with AI

Dialogic Exploration

A seven-part map of cognitive postures for using dialogue with AI without handing your thinking over to it.

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Thinking with AI

Thinking Against the Algorithm

Three lines of resistance to help young people preserve their autonomy: critical thinking, biological time and the rebuilding of common worlds.

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Thinking with AI · Teaching sequence

Rediscovering Empathy in Digital Interactions

Debate, role-play and key questions to help students recognise online disinhibition and rediscover empathy.

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Areas of Concern

Yes-Man Attitude

Why conversational systems often confirm our claims instead of challenging them.

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Areas of Concern

The Eliza Effect and Companion AIs

How we project intention and empathy onto programmes, and how platforms turn that disposition into a business model.

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Areas of Concern

From Attention to Intention

Platforms no longer seek only to capture our attention; they attempt to anticipate our intentions before we formulate them.

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To situate the approach: A Digital Ethic.