Presence of Little Green Men

Artificial intelligences as new alterity: enom extraterrestrial to infraterrestrial.

Human beings have always sought alterity in the stars. Yet, the true “little green men” emerge today from our own technological creations, redefining the boundaries of humanity. Extraterrestrial imagination as mirror of our humanityThe little (…)

Chapter 4 : Interlaced video

You may already have seen these very ugly horizontal lines on video images, very visible in the movements. Therefore we see from time to time ? Where did they come from ? How to get rid ?We must once again, back to the story to understand the (…)

Six Fears About AI, Six Shifts in Thinking

Responding to defensive rhetoric with a philosophy of transformation.

Surveillance, relational isolation, environmental destruction, robotic warfare, existential threat, billionaire power: the dominant discourse on AI accumulates perils. These concerns deserve examination. But their very formulation prevents us (…)

Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette by the Observatory of cultural policies (3’52s, 2019).

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette: why and how to conduct cultural mediations for the younger generations in the digital age.Directed by Aurélie Doulmet.

Tell me your technologies contest - Pocket Films training

Train mediators who will lead filmmaking workshops.The association Les atomes crochus offers since 2013 the contest “Tell me your technologies”. The idea is to propose the making of intergenerational films about technical objects : a person (…)

Caring for Artificial Intelligence

Moving beyond the for/against impasse and cultivating our relationships with machines.

Faced with AI, we exhaust ourselves in sterile oppositions. Inspired by Bernard Stiegler, I propose to “care for” this technology: not to control it, but to tend to our relationships with it and among ourselves. Beyond posturing: the impasse of a (…)

Confidence bias in algorithms

Fighting fear.

Paradox: faced with AI, we doubt our human judgment while blindly trusting the algorithms supposed to detect them. This fear weakens us, whereas the real issue is our relationship to our humanity, regardless of the tools used. The unconscious (…)

Petite Poucette 2.0

In Praise of Social Networks Against the Moral Panic of the Elite.

What if, far from atrophying our minds, social networks were the new printing press? A revolution of thought that the powers that be are trying to demonize for their own survival. The digital witch trial: a sense of déjà vuI read and hear (…)

Cultivating digital sovereignty

For a democratic reclaiming of our digital spaces.

Faced with our growing dependence on tech giants, digital sovereignty is becoming a major democratic challenge. It’s time to act collectively. The foundations of digital sovereigntyDigital sovereignty refers to the ability of a State, (…)

Intelligence as a Resource

How the commoditisation of artificial intelligence is shifting our intellectual activity towards what is most distinctively human: the formulation of questions.

As artificial intelligence tends to become a commodity accessible to all, in the manner of electricity or running water, it is not our intelligence that disappears: it is the way in which we exercise it that shifts. No longer towards the search (…)

The room next door

Collective film (2’47s, 2019).

When media objects revolt.

Book : “Mobile phone and creation”

Collective book to which I contributed, with the article “From economy to the conversation and audiovisual creation”. Publication Date : 19 February 2014 published by Armand Colin Link to the official website of the conference that gave birth to (…)

The Freinet method applied to digital mediation

Pedagogy and politics of autonomy.

The pedagogical method known as “Freinet” (conceptualized by the pedagogue Célestin Freinet from the 1920s to the 1960s, as a synthesis of pre-existing new pedagogies) is centered on doing, with tools, a purpose and autonomy for the students. (…)

Cultural Rights and Digital Discoverability

For a cultural policy adapted to digital spaces.

Faced with the failure of many institutional digital cultural strategies, cultural rights and its corollary cultural democracy seem to me to be very constructive tools. Here’s how. Limits and opportunities of digital discoverability policies (…)

MINA 2012 (Wellington, New Zeland)

Screening of « Poster », a film by Benoît Labourdette (3’05, 2012).In 2010, Max Schelser, filmmaker and researcher, accompanied by an international committee, created the MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa), which organizes: (…)

ARTE - Training manufacture of a multimedia work

The Franco-German channel ARTE is, like all TV channels, changing the very nature of its activities. ARTE pioneered early on the web (with ARTE Live Web ARTE creative, etc.). These new programs, these new kinds of relationship to the public, and (…)

The machine that writes to itself

How reasoning came to language models.

Since late 2024, language models have been “reasoning” before they answer. I retrace here the path by which reasoning came to these statistical machines, from the discovery of 2022 to Anthropic’s interpretability research, so that this (…)

Cognitive air conditioning

Artificial intelligence is to thought what the air conditioner is to the body: an aid that puts us back in a condition to act. What remains is to choose its technology, its construction and its place in the shared environment, so that it does not manufacture inequalities all over again.

I propose a concept, cognitive air conditioning: artificial intelligence as an aid to thought and action, just as coolness puts a body back in working order. An aid is neither a triumph to celebrate nor an abdication to deplore; it is judged by (…)

Sovereignty or Security?

Digital responsibility put to the test of reality.

The fire at a state data center in South Korea in September 2025 proves human fragility in the face of digital storage. Between risky sovereignty and secure dependency, what price are we willing to accept for our digital heritage? The Illusion of (…)

Timetology

Film collectif (2’37s, 2020).

Dans l’antre des technologies, lieu des mutations de l’humain.

Cold

Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2009).

Never, never, never, never sick!

University of Picardie: “New media, new writing, new funding”

Training new media in Picardy. Course open for registration.The training “New media, new writing, new funding” proposed by the University of Picardie and ACAP, from October 26 to 30, 2015 (duration: 30 hours) is aimed at professionals, to (…)

Digital culture meetings: round table “VR, digital and education”.

Discovery of educational experiences using Virtual Reality, either as a tool or as an object for building critical thinking skills.Round table moderated by Benoît Labourdette, as part of the Digital Culture Meeting 2019, organized by (…)

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 (1949). (…)

Create your film about imaginary disasters - 2^nd edition

Creative prevention workshop at the eco-citizen house (Bordeaux).

The imaginary of disasters: creating together to better navigate uncertainty. Why imagining disasters makes us strongerNeuroscience shows us: our brain does not differentiate between an intensely lived experience and an experience imagined (…)

Chapter 1 : What is a photographic image ?

What is an image ?To answer this question, the first question to ask is: Why do we see? How do we see? What do we see?Keeping it simple: at the bottom of our eye, there is a “sensitive area”, which sends information to the brain, which (…)

The script’s little bike

For the rhythmic mechanics of writing.

A screenplay is a narrative mechanism, like a bicycle: the energy of the characters and the story move forward in time, guided by precise gears. A useful metaphor for spotting weaknesses and building harmony in writing.A screenplay is a (…)

The object that disposes

What machines change in mediation.

When we choose a tool for mediation, we choose a device of relationships. The technical object carries within it a history, a politics, ways of arranging bodies and gazes. This is true of the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph in 1895 as much as of (…)

Born in the Machine

Toward an Anthropology of the Interface.

Five weeks spent in an incubator at birth, in a sterile environment where the only contacts came from the caregivers through the sleeves of the apparatus and the continuous sensors of the medical machine. My parents could only see me through a (…)

The turning threshold

When a political position is pushed to its logical conclusion, it can end up joining what it was fighting. It is nevertheless possible to hold strong positions while knowing where that point lies.

In environmental movements and on the left, the fiercest disagreements set against each other people who want the same thing. I propose the concept of the “turning threshold” to describe the moment when a position, through sheer consistency, (…)

Trouble in Intelligence

For a polyintelligence: moving beyond anthropocentrism in the era of thinking machines.

The emerging AI seems to me to reveal our age-old fear of otherness. But what if this encounter offered us the opportunity to rethink our relationship to all forms of intelligence that surround us? The illusion of human superiorityA large part (…)

What is Philosophy Today?

Crafting concepts from presence and lived life.

Every person carries a philosophy without knowing it, inherited from their culture. I try here to say what it is, for me, to do philosophy today, forging concepts from presence and lived life. No one escapes philosophyEvery person, whether or (…)

Rethinking love, work, and autonomy in the age of artificial intelligence.

The new skills to develop for a changing world.

Our era is made of mutations, profound and often invisible. I believe it is time to deconstruct the inner prisons that prevent us from embracing change. Between technological revolution and social emancipation, a reflection on our capacities for (…)

“The flavor of data”: for a phenomenology of digital autonomy

Sentiment of dependency and digital sovereignty.

In the contemporary digital ecosystem, our apparent freedom of use conceals a structural and total dependence on platforms. This illusion of autonomy masks the disappearance of our individual and collective sovereignty. The invisible (…)

Digital and rationality

For a non-phantasmic vision of digital technologies.

Digital technology, often wrongly associated with rationality, is in reality an imperfect and material technology. Our choices of digital tools are political and determine the world we collectively build. A Pseudo-Critical SpiritIn debates, (…)

Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)

Roundtable / lectures on the issues of creation in the digital age.Rouen, 2 December 2014. I participated in the roundtable / lectures as an artist and cultural player. It is obvious, digital upset the issues of artistic creation, whether from (…)

Presence and adaptation

For an ethics of transformation.

Between active presence and constrained adaptation, cultivating an “adaptive presence”: an ethics of creative resistance in the face of transformations that overwhelm us. Presence, a state of active consciousnessWhat I call presence is a (…)

Elevator to the unknown

New Media Professional Training (ESRA)

Practice to prepare for tomorrow’s challenges.

A Sector Linked to InnovationThe ESRA, a private film school established in 1972, also offers professional training programs. I led a session on new media as part of a professional training course designed for camera operators, assistant (…)

Tell me LED

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2016, 1h06’).

Film made of permanent layering of images and sounds, as in writing a chorus of self-creation through artistic expression.Choral work as part of a creative residency at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil in 2015.

Cognitive dissonance and Artificial Intelligence

For an authentic commitment to technology.

We criticize tech giants while using their services daily. This contradiction reveals our ambiguous relationship with technologies and calls for rethinking our political engagement. Industrialists: opportunists rather than ideologuesIt has (…)

Premiere of the film “Tell me LED” - January 8, 2016 - Montreuil

Premiere of the film “Tell me LED” (France, 2016, 65 minutes), Friday, January 8, 2016 at 20:30. Cinéma Le Méliès, 12 Place Jean Jaurès - 93100 Montreuil - France. “Mairie de Montreuil” metro station. Free admission by reservation : reservation (…)

Liability and computer backup

To stop turning our backs on our future.

Computer backup is often neglected due to a lack of understanding and the illusion of the ubiquity of digital data. This unawareness exposes us to significant technical, economic, and personal vulnerabilities. I’m not going to bother with that! (…)

Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Human Connection

How generative AI tools can paradoxically enrich our social bonds.

Generative AIs worry us with their mimetic capacity. Yet, by freeing us from time-consuming cognitive tasks, they offer us more time and energy to cultivate what is essential: our human relationships. An ancient fear facing a new reality (…)

Forum des images : Film and digital video training

The Forum des Images cultural institution in the city of Paris, is a cultural place of film programming, offers a collection of films about Paris and beyond, as well as many resources on its website. The teams face very directly to rapid changes (…)

Living heart of the machine

Series of 85 photographs of a new life form.

The machine, or machines, are now, and have been for a long time in fact, in mechanical life. They are the lungs of our lives: electricity, drinking water, various energies and automated production of the objects in which our lives are embodied. (…)

Montpellier III University : Transmedia strategies, encoding and creativity

5 day course : technical basis, strategy and creativity for new media.The students of the “Licence Pro audiovisual designer director” (University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 - France) have a multidisciplinary profile, both artistic and (…)

“Cinema and video games”: three lectures by Benoît Labourdette.

Within the framework of the university of the cinema of Ciclic.

These lectures examine the relationship between the worlds of film and video games. Parallel histories, crossings, reciprocal inspirations and hybridizations between cinema and video games, from Tron to machinimas through Elephant, Casino Royale (…)

About the 21^st Century: Meeting with Paul Virilio

A film by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette (26 minutes, 1995).

Paul Virilio, a great philosopher of technology in the 20th Century, in 1994, gave us a vision of the 21st Century that seems to us very enlightening to give meaning to our present, 26 years later.This film, Grand Prix (Silver Wolf) of the (…)

FNCF: DVD Manufacturing of trailers for public development operations

Manufacturing a DVD containing all the trailers of FNCF public promotion operations, for corporate use.The National Federation of Cinema, which, among others, organized since the 80s “La fête du cinéma” asked me through its advertising agency (…)

About the “new” images

A critical reflection on technological innovation and real cultural transformation.

Between ephemeral fashion effects and genuine artistic revolutions, “new images” often reveal more about our relationship to the present than to the future, and often more about the seduction of fashion than constructive innovation for the (…)

Web seminar resources: “better communication on the web”

A three-step journey to master the fundamentals of the web (Afnic Foundation, October 2025).

I led three webinars for the Afnic Foundation in October 2025. Three mornings to understand how to build an effective web presence, from SEO to writing. A journey designed for the nonprofit sector. Why this training cycle?The Afnic Foundation (…)

Generative artificial intelligence and anthropological change

A hypothesis on the end of human solitude in the age of generative AI.

The advent of ChatGPT marks, to my mind, a major anthropological rupture: for the first time, humanity is no longer alone in the face of existence. The first signs of the upheavalI have long been interested in the subject of the technological (…)

Conformism versus Sovereignty

The comfort of digital dependence versus the requirement of data mastery.

Our digital lives rely on standardized tools. While this conformism simplifies usage, it exposes us to a loss of control. Let us reflect on this societal choice that shapes our collective future more than we think. The Seduction of Digital (…)

Book: “Image education 2.0”

Practical guide (free download).

“Image education 2.0” (under the direction of Benoît Labourdette), practical book of image education in the digital age, published by ACAP. Free download.Download the entire book (french).In line with the work of Jacques Rancière (“The (…)

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our critical mind on VR. The Usbek & Rica media interviewed me on this subject, (…)

Politics and Digital Technology: The Cascade of Rules

How CSS Language Illuminates the Mechanisms of Automated Exclusion in Our Digital Societies.

Social exclusion no longer proceeds solely from individual decisions or explicit ideologies. It now operates through the automatic propagation of rules embedded in our technical infrastructures. Technofascism or Exclusion by CascadeLennie (…)

War on Screen Film Festival 2025

When high school students take to the city walls to raise awareness about the ecological emergency.

An evening where eight teams of teenagers transformed the streets into giant screens to share their concerns about the state of the planet, armed with just a portable projector and their conviction. A tradition that reinvents itself each year (…)

No picture on screen

A film by Benoît Labourdette ( 2’54s , 2015).

The mystery of physiological processes at work in a movie theater.

Technology, presence, use and innovation

Methodological elements for innovation.

Innovation does not come from technical mastery but from the singular use we make of it. Faced with AI and new technologies, it is our presence to ourselves that enables creative and personal applications. How not to fall behind?We often (…)

Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”

Anthropologies of cinematographic devices, by Jean-Louis Comolli, Benoît Labourdette and Vincent Sorrel.The Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire offer as part of their 27th one-day seminar, 20 August 2015: “The mutations of cinema”. (…)

Moore’s Law

An empirical law of computing that has more impact than we imagine on professional audiovisual practices. Gordon MooreGordon Moore, a chemist by training, is one of the co-founders of the company Intel, manufacturing microprocessors that equip (…)

Notes for a philosophy at the age of artificial intelligences

A toolbox for thinking about what is happening to us.

The concepts available to philosophy were forged in an era when humans were alone in producing articulated meaning, in reasoning through propositions, in fabricating written works, in dialoguing through language. With generative artificial (…)

Tubular Bells

Opera “The little cunning vixen” : video installation

We designed, me and the stage director Louise Moaty, a video installation to shoot live on stage of the opera “The cunning little vixen”, produced by the Arcal, released January 15, 2016 at the Maison de la Musique in Nanterre (France), on tour (…)

Light in a window

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 1999-2019).

A contemplative journey through the energy of light, between nature and electronics.

Region Poitou-Charentes : Digital Practices Training

Cross Training to digital practices for mediators and teachers.With Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, we have provided training to teachers, speakers, artists and animators, two day training on digital practices at large. I (…)

Online training course: “Short film, digital and 21^st Century: new media, new uses, new paths”.

43^rd Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival : film analysis course.

The Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival always starts with a two-day course. For the 43rd edition of the festival in 2020, the workshop is animated by Benoît Labourdette, and takes place in video, on the theme “Short film, digital and 21st (…)

Manufacture of the screening Blu-ray discs for Jacques Tati’s movies

Blu-ray discs specifically designed for theatrical release. The heritage of Jacques Tati in digitalThe films of my uncle, founded in 2000 by Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff to restore and distribute the films of Jacques Tati, now (…)

The Company, place of creation in Marseille : drone workshop

Inventing art forms, filmed with drone.The Company, place of contemporary art in Marseille, led by Paul-Emmanuel Odin, invited me to offer to local youth, in the central and very popular in Marseille where it is an audiovisual creative (…)

Anthropology of the Electricity Pylon

On the technical mythology of a country that never debates its infrastructures.

In December 1999, the storms Lothar and Martin brought down more than a thousand high-voltage pylons in France and cut off electricity to 3.7 million households, sometimes for three weeks. Neighbouring Germany, crossed by the same winds, remained (…)

The mechanical reproduction processes (of image and sound) make us deceive ourselves. As they exist and are part of life, it makes us believe that in life too it is possible to repeat, to repeat past intense moments, and this without damaging them.

Digital sovereignty, a democratic emergency

When our public institutions jeopardize our collective autonomy.

The loss of our digital sovereignty does not result from the thoughtlessness of citizen-users, but from a form of political unconsciousness regarding the power issues carried by industrial tools, including and particularly digital tools. This (…)

Cultural data and cultural rights

For an inclusive heritage democracy in the digital age.

Citizen cultural data is tomorrow’s heritage. Their recognition and preservation constitute a major democratic challenge for building a constructive collective memory for future democracies. The technical foundations of an interoperable digital (…)

Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the complete book.I wrote this book to make it a concrete guide, technical as of shooting and directing. (…)

Cinema and artificial intelligence, two innovations looking at each other

Reflections on technological upheavals and their creative echoes.

Cinema and artificial intelligence share a similar trajectory: disruptive innovations first decried, then becoming transformative industries of our relationship to the world. Parallel revolutions, from contempt to industryCinema shares with (…)

The idea factory: “We tested a 360° camera shooting”

Article on thethe blog of the Canope Media Library about a virtual reality filmmaking workshop led by Benoît Labourdette.We tested a 360° camera shooting - The idea factory We tested a 360-degree camera shootingNUMOK, the digital festival (…)

Closed for technical problems

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’05s, 2015).

The bankruptcy of a movie theater, and the words that accompany indifference.

Sound is the first factor of immersion

Why immersion begins with the ears.

We associate immersion with the image that surrounds us, with the spherical screen, with the headset. I defend here the opposite idea, and I unfold it through a history of immersion taken from the angle of sound, from the panoramas of the (…)

See or be seen

Collective film (3’29s, 2019).

Objects share their vision of ecology and the future.

Spike proteins

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2023).

People who have stood up for the respect of humanity are always present, even to help those who had decried them.Directed, text, voice, image and music by Benoît Labourdette, 2023.This film takes a poetic approach to a public health (…)

Human Singularities in the Face of Artificial Intelligence

Why the advent of generative AI reveals our humanity rather than threatening it.

Faced with the prowess of generative AIs, concern about humanity’s future place is legitimate. But looking with clarity at our human singularities allows us to distinguish them from the capabilities of artificial intelligence, and to identify (…)

Best practices for putting videos online

How to put a video online? What are the technical, patrimonial, practical, legal issues? Methodological tools for a professional and structured approach to video on the web.The concepts and methodologies presented in this article, although (…)

Laddered

Series of 45 laddered photographs.

If each image flows before our eyes, then the world becomes like a fluid.

Cinematheque of Martigues : “From the sensitive to the camera”

The Cinematheque of Martigues offers a program of films by Benoît Labourdette. “From the sensitive to the camera”Benoît Labourdette’s film program, from April 1 to 15, 2017, as part of the exhibition “Films in the Pockets”.Presentation text (…)

Prosopopoeia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2016). Produced by Arcadi Île-de-France.

Documentary on the exhibition “Prosopopoeia, when objects come to life.” The look of a machine, the drone, on objects endowed with autonomy.

The Dead End of Digital Conscientious Objection

On the necessity of inhabiting our technological environments rather than fleeing them.

Faced with the deployment of generative AI, some researchers proclaim conscientious objection. I defend instead the requirement of critical presence and empowerment through practice. The trap of disembodied critiqueSeveral researchers, notably (…)

CEFPF :“Designing, producing and financing interactive transmedia content” training course (2017)

Vocational training on technologies and strategies for developing transmedia projects.For the eighth year, I am the referent trainer of this 5-week professional training course at CEFPF (European Film Production Training Centre), intended (…)

www.lacid.org website + Databases

ACID is an association of filmmakers who, since 1992, supports the cinema distribution of independent films, and organizes a selection in Cannes film festival. Filmmakers who are committed to other filmmakers.I accompanied and managed the (…)

Selected excerpts on Artificial Intelligence

Bibliographic sharing.

Artificial Intelligence has been a hot topic in the general public and in organizations ever since ChatGPT, a powerful tool for generating structured text from a query, went public in November 2022. Indeed, as stakeholders, we are touching the (…)

Symposium : Attention, machine! Artistic Practices and Media Recycling

Communication by Benoît Labourdette to listen (25 minutes) on the stage use of live contributions from unknown users. As part of the symposium “Attention, machine!”. February 7,2018. This symposium organised by the Litt&Arts UMR of the (…)

Create lightweight, high-quality video files

Reduce the size of a video file while maintaining the best possible quality. Guide for Handbrake free software.Broadcasting video, whether on your computer, telephone, television, on the web, in a theatre or cinema, is the most common and (…)

Language invention and artificial intelligence

The linguistic autonomy of machines and its implications.

Generative AIs, designed to master human language through deep learning, could paradoxically invent more efficient languages among themselves that would completely escape us and could transform the world without our knowledge. Explanation of why (…)

Ecology and Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to concrete awareness of the environmental impact of data centers.

The rise of AI is generating unprecedented ecological pressure on water and electricity resources. Facing this challenge, decentralization and reclaiming digital sovereignty appear as pathways to sustainable solutions. The Dialectics of (…)

Chapter 2 : Invention of cinema

Cinema is a cross between a camera and the mechanics of a sewing machine, which helped capture on a long strip of film, a large number of photos one after the other. In this instance, since 1927, it is still 24 frames per second.These (…)

Chapter 3 : Technology of television

The concept of televisionThe goal of “tele-vision” at the beginning, as its name suggests, was able to transmit moving pictures remotely, making “live” that the cinema does not, because you have to develop the film.But how, in the early (…)

Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”

Short techno-sociological history of cinema.

Moving images seem so natural and omnipresent that we are sometimes not very aware that they are in fact intrinsically linked to very concrete technologies, which have a strong impact on their content, more than we want to believe. For example, (…)

The work of art in the age of digital mediation

Conceptual update of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935).

During an experiment in artistic mediation integrating digital techniques, it became clear to me that the typologies of status and function of artistic works that Walter Benjamin defined in 1935 are now being modified by digital practices of (…)

For a Political Consciousness of Digital Technology

When our technological choices shape tomorrow’s world.

Every click, every application used, every digital service adopted constitutes a political act that participates in building our collective future, far beyond our individual uses. Digital technology as an artificial environment of existenceI (…)

The biases of trust in machines

Why do we prefer algorithmic authority to human expertise?

We proclaim our attachment to human autonomy in the face of machines, but our everyday behaviors reveal a very different reality: we willingly delegate our decisions to them. The Paradox of Our Voluntary SubmissionDiscourses on artificial (…)

The Digital as Living Environment: Rethinking Cultural Practices in the Anthropocene Era

Presentation by Benoît Labourdette at the Graduate Schools Seminar “Imaginaries of the Anthropocene and New Contexts” (University of Burgundy, December 11, 2025).

On December 11, 2025, at the invitation of Alain Chenevez, Senior Lecturer (HDR) in Sociology at the University of Burgundy, I spoke alongside Olivier Servais, digital anthropologist at the Catholic University of Louvain, as part of the Graduate (…)