The Minett as Palimpsest

Article for general public (2022)

The landscape in some parts of the Minett can be considered as a kind of palimpsest. For historians and archaeologists, a palimpsest is a writing medium, for example a parchment or a manuscript, that is ... [more ▼]

The landscape in some parts of the Minett can be considered as a kind of palimpsest. For historians and archaeologists, a palimpsest is a writing medium, for example a parchment or a manuscript, that is used several times by erasing the previous writing. The landscape of the Minett has also changed greatly over the centuries as a result of human intervention. The soil can tell many overlapping and entangled stories. Some things have been completely erased, while other traces of past times have been left. [less ▲]

Cyborg, IA et société "cyborgisée" : l’avènement d’une société-ruche

in Collectif (Ed.) Aux frontières de l'humain (2021)

If the cyborg remains a human - repaired, augmented or diminished -, the emergence of metaphorical or real figures such as the latter as well as hybrids, robots, drones and AIs, is perhaps the expression ... [more ▼]

If the cyborg remains a human - repaired, augmented or diminished -, the emergence of metaphorical or real figures such as the latter as well as hybrids, robots, drones and AIs, is perhaps the expression of an anthropological major shift. Indeed, beyond the question of the enhanced humanity, transhumanism and the possibility of posthumanism, it seems topical to ask whether it is not society itself that is in the process of becoming 'cyborgised' on a global scale. In such a case, rather than listing the anthropotechnical technologies (of human modification) that have appeared since the invention of computers, it seems appropriate to anticipate and attempt to understand the ethical, political, economic and social issues emblematic of these technologies. Hence the concept of the 'hive-society', used to describe this possible major break in history marked by the advent of an organisation that is above all administered by - and sometimes for - digital machines. [less ▲]

Le malade global. De l’aile de la chauve-souris à l’aile d’avion. Esquisse d’une anthropologie du coronavirus

Article for general public (2020)

Le coronavirus a provoqué le confinement de la moitié de la population de la planète et bouscule drastiquement l’économie mondiale. En termes anthropologiques, deux caractéristiques l’ont aidé à avoir ... [more ▼]

Le coronavirus a provoqué le confinement de la moitié de la population de la planète et bouscule drastiquement l’économie mondiale. En termes anthropologiques, deux caractéristiques l’ont aidé à avoir cette diffusion si fulgurante. La menace n’était initialement ni suffisamment visible ni suffisamment effrayante pour être stoppée net par l’instauration immédiate de politiques sanitaires adéquates dans tous les pays à la fois. [less ▲]

Cognitive Prosthetics

Book published by ISTE / Elsevier (2019)

Computerized machines can be found in many forms and all around us - in our pockets, and even sometimes in our body. For many of us, they are now essential elements of everyday life. When it comes to ... [more ▼]

Computerized machines can be found in many forms and all around us - in our pockets, and even sometimes in our body. For many of us, they are now essential elements of everyday life. When it comes to smartphones, connected objects, medical digital devices and e-health, these digital tools have proliferated in our environment, continually transforming our modes of social organization. They act as prostheses and orthotics that "enhance" our cognitive capacities and influence our inherent behaviors. Are digital tools that perpetually envelop the body and the spirit able to overwhelm the social order? Could our cognitive prosthetics lead to permanent, radical change to our society, which could become similar to a hive? This book explores this reflection, which is at the center of social research on digital tools. [less ▲]

Le transhumanisme : incarnation de l'hypermodernisme… ou fuite en avant fantasmatique ?

in Connexions (2018), 110(2), 73-86

Transhumanism, which appeared the second half of the twentieth century, is an ideological catalyser of a monopolistic concentration in progress in the context of the advent, on a worldwide scale, of ... [more ▼]

Transhumanism, which appeared the second half of the twentieth century, is an ideological catalyser of a monopolistic concentration in progress in the context of the advent, on a worldwide scale, of hypermodernity. It reactualises the old fantasy of infinite youth and the belief in the immortality of the soul by using technoscience to argue in favour of its feasibility. What works in favour of transhumanism is that we would all like to believe in it because it flatters a latent wish to overcome our limits. And yet it is precisely our limits that structure the form and harmony of our bodies and minds and give meaning to our existence. *** Le transhumanisme apparu dans la seconde moitié du xx e siècle est un catalyseur idéologique d’une concentration monopolistique en cours dans le cadre de l’avènement, à l’échelle planétaire, de l’hypermodernité. Il réactualise le vieux fantasme de la jeunesse infinie et la croyance en l’immortalité de l’âme en utilisant la technoscience pour argumenter en faveur de sa faisabilité. Ce qui joue en faveur du transhumanisme, c’est que nous avons tous envie d’y croire car cela flatte un désir latent de s’affranchir de nos limites. Pourtant, ce sont précisément nos limites qui structurent la forme et l’harmonie de notre corps et de notre psyché et donnent un sens à nos existences. [less ▲]

Appareiller le corps avec lequel je suis né(e). L’agénésie de membre à la frontière entre normalité et handicap

in IFRATH (2016)

Cette recherche étudie la frontière entre réparation et augmentation du corps humain par la technologie au travers de l’étude de l’agénésie de membre, c’est à dire de l’absence congénitale d’un ou ... [more ▼]

Cette recherche étudie la frontière entre réparation et augmentation du corps humain par la technologie au travers de l’étude de l’agénésie de membre, c’est à dire de l’absence congénitale d’un ou plusieurs membre(s), segment(s) de membre(s) ou extrémité(s). L’analyse porte sur les enjeux sociologiques et psychologiques liés à la vulnérabilité somatique et à la suppléance prothétique par l’étude de ce cas particulier de malformation de naissance. [less ▲]

L’agénésie de membre

Article for general public (2016)

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Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget: a manifesto

in Lendemains (2014), 156

Lectures croisées de deux livres de Jaron Lanier : Who Owns the Future ?, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2013 et You Are Not a Gadget, New York, Knopf, 2010

in Hermès: Cognition, Communication, Politique (2014), 69

Dispositifs informatisés implantés ou détachables : Une comparaison anthropologique

Scientific Conference (2012)