Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is the founder of a psychoanalysis rooted in language. His influence was considerable. His approach to psychology is atypical, built with notions of mathematics, logic, linguistics, theology...

In his 1955 lecture Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics, or the Nature of Language, he addressed the question of the intelligence of machines in the real world:

“[...] something has happened in the real world, and we’re wondering - maybe not very long, but significant minds do - if we have a machine that thinks.”

The explanations of psychological processes that Lacan proposes, by means of logical, almost algorithmic codifications, seem to be very good tools for thinking today’s world, and in particular the questions of man-machine relations (the “singularity”).

Poem in automatic writing about « Jacques Lacan »

This film is part of the transmedia project “The singularity” (www.la-singularite.com). It is always rather surprising to note that often, in this way of floating listening particular to the being there, unfold productions much more prolific than in the voluntarist devices. They make us live. I worked on this metaphor within a video installation in the framework of the Loop exhibition in 2022, by placing a magic slate in the middle of digital image projections, to propose to the visitors to make photographs to share them between them on a dedicated platform.

What is information?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’10s, 2016).

Wonder about the foundations of language, its meaning and its forms... for men and machines.This film is part of the transmedia project “The singularity” (www.la-singularite.com).

21 June 2016

The being and the image

Short proposal for an operativity of the philosophy of the image.

The images we look at, share, imagine and create have an important impact on our being in the world. Why do they do so? And how can we make good use of images to “be better”? Philosophical hypotheses and practical questions.Too much (...)

27 June 2022

6 min

Filming the wire

A young Italian man, arms outstretched, a camera in his hands, filming an electric wire, recounting an imaginary telephone conversation that would take place there. Very beautiful movement, projection of the outside on what happens inside. What (...)

13 September 2021

1 min

Nature of reality in the digital age

Small kaleidoscope of thoughts about digital philosophy.

In my opinion, digital technology is not a subject that should be debated, that deserves to be positioned “for” or “against”. It is in fact an environment of existence, in the same way as nature, air, borders, economy, education... Digital (...)

28 January 2023

6 min

Advertising for exhibition of Jacques Tati’s photographs - YellowKorner

The “chain” of photographic galleries YellowKorner (70 galleries in the world), in partnership with Les films de mon oncle, exposes from april 16th to june 14th 2014 nine photographic prints extracts from films of Jacques Tati : Big Day (...)