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.
• Clash of Temporalities The initial collision between biological time and algorithmic time, and the conceptual source of digital anomie.
• Digital Anomie When digital uses spread faster than the collective reference points capable of framing them, a normative and educational disorientation settles in.
• 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.
• Cognitive Multiverse A web where human, synthetic and hybrid contents coexist, blur together and destabilise the conditions of judgement.
• Dispossession of the Educational Subject When assistance quietly relocates memory, judgement, orientation and decision outside the educational subject.
• Cognitive Justice The fracture concerns not only access to tools, but the unequal mastery of systems and the effective right to remain a subject before them.
• Digital Metacognition Observing one's uses, measuring their effects and recovering command of one's own thought in a saturated technical milieu.
• Responsible Digital Autonomy A five-dimensional horizon for using technologies reflectively, critically, ethically, creatively and without surrendering judgement.
• Hybrid Solidarity A political and educational proposal for organising our new interdependence with technical systems without yielding to them what should remain human.
• Rediscovering Empathy in Digital Interactions A teaching sequence built to address online disinhibition and recover empathy.

The seven categories that organise the site's inventory of vulnerabilities, disorientation and social consequences.

• Time, Body and Biology Sleep disorders, fatigue, decoupling from the body, impossible boredom, and the collision between biological rhythms and permanent stimulation.
• Information and Reality Disinformation, deepfakes, blurred provenance, synthetic content and a growing difficulty in distinguishing the true from the plausible.
• Identity and Thought Memory weakened by delegation, attention fragmented, language reformatted, judgement displaced and thought quietly subcontracted.
• Power, Control and Society Automated surveillance, scoring, political manipulation, and the military danger of AI when lethal decisions are delegated to autonomous systems.
• Work and Economy Automation, job polarisation, new forms of precarity, and unresolved tensions around copyright, training data and the remuneration of creators.
• Environment Electricity demand, water use, extraction of materials, infrastructure footprint and the ecological cost of accelerated obsolescence.
• Social Bonds and Relationships Cyberbullying, online disinhibition, simulated empathy, companion AIs and the erosion of embodied, reciprocal relations.