Themes

Dialogues, confrontations and shifts of perspective. Bringing authors, ideas and sensibilities into contact in order to see more clearly what the digital world is transforming.

• Posthumous Theatre Arendt, Foucault, Marx, Nietzsche, Bourdieu, Tocqueville and others summoned before algorithms.
• Sherlock Holmes Faces AI Fiction. In a Paris apartment, Holmes shows Watson how to detect AI-assisted writing. Paris, March 1886
• AI, Rise ! Fiction. The algorithm stands trial for the assassination of patience, harm to boredom and torture by sleep deprivation.
• Black Out A fiction in three acts. One night, Trump suspends all American digital services.

Exploring the intellectual uses of AI without delegating thought, judgement or responsibility to it.

• A Digital Ethic What artificial intelligence compels us to think. A foundational text on algorithmic time, autonomy and the conditions of a digital ethic.
• Dialogic Exploration A seven-part map of cognitive postures for using dialogue with AI without handing your thinking over to it.
• Thinking Against the Algorithm Three lines of resistance: critical thinking, biological time and the rebuilding of common worlds.
• Rediscovering Empathy in Digital Interactions A teaching sequence built to address online disinhibition and recover empathy.

Identifying the biases conversational systems can reinforce, the soft dependencies they install, and the new fragilities they create.

• Yes-Man Attitude Why conversational systems often validate our claims instead of challenging them.
• The Eliza Effect and Companion AIs How we attribute intention and empathy to programmes, and how platforms exploit that projection.
• From Attention to Intention From capturing attention to pre-empting intention.
• Reclaiming Silence Identity needs unoccupied time; AI seeks to fill every second.