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Freedom and Cultural Rights

Freedom and Cultural Rights

A renewed approach to democratic dignity, through the contribution of two new rights.
Cultural rights, seemingly guarantors of human dignity, are emptied of their meaning when they fail to forcefully articulate the question of freedom. Their full (…)

Cultural Rights and Digital Technology

Cultural Rights and Digital Technology

Rethinking digital tools in service of cultural democracy.
How can digital technology become a lever for cultural emancipation rather than an instrument of dependence? I propose a digital implementation of the eight (…)

Media and Information Education: Rethinking the Role of Journalists

Media and Information Education: Rethinking the Role of Journalists

For a Critical Pedagogy Free from the Journalistic Lens.
Entrusting media education to journalists is like asking the manufacturer to evaluate their own product. This approach, which is widespread, constitutes a fundamental (…)

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

“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 (…)

What is the place of human beings in the age of artificial intelligence?

What is the place of human beings in the age of artificial intelligence?

From function to being: a plea for rediscovered humanity.
AI surpasses our functions. Rather than a threat, what if this were an opportunity? There may be a chance to redefine ourselves not by what we do, but by what we (…)

Social Presence and Physiological Health

Social Presence and Physiological Health

What is the true elixir of youth?
Beyond diets, miracle remedies and “scientific progress,” the key to longevity lies in the depth of our connection to community. Lessons from the “Blue Zones”When (…)

The Potential Advent of a “Meta-Human”

The Potential Advent of a “Meta-Human”

When AI Promises to Augment Our Very Being.
Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta) announces his desire to create a “personal superintelligence for everyone.” Beyond the technological project, an anthropological (…)

Artificial Intelligence, or the End of Demiurges

Artificial Intelligence, or the End of Demiurges

Towards a Radical Democratization of Power in the Era of Generative AI.
What if, far from heralding a new servitude, AI signaled the end of the demiurgic figures who shape our lives? A revolution of power, silent and profound, may be (…)

Too Easy Forgiveness

Too Easy Forgiveness

When indulgence toward elected officials betrays the democratic pact.
Following an exchange with a member of parliament, one question obsesses me: why do we so easily forgive the moral failure of those who govern us, when their function (…)

For an ecology of dispensability

For an ecology of dispensability

Rethinking authority and transmission.
Faced with the vertical management that dominates and alienates, another path exists: that of an authority that aims for its own dispensability, of a transmission (…)

The Fantasy of Digital Ecology

The Fantasy of Digital Ecology

When individual guilt-shaming masks industrial predation.
In our situation of ecological emergency, greenwashing diverts our attention from the real culprits. While we conscientiously sort our waste, the digital industry (…)

The specter of the other

The specter of the other

From anxious dehumanization to confident recognition.
How can the other, a subject of rights, become a threatening figure? A reflection born from a confrontation with reality, beyond the fantasies and prejudices that our (…)

Presence against the calm crowd

Presence against the calm crowd

From collective docility to individual resistance.
When information reassures and lulls our democratic vigilance to sleep, how can we resist the allure of voluntary submission? A reflection on the invisible mechanisms (…)

Presence of Little Green Men

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 (…)

Dignity and Freedom

Dignity and Freedom

For an Ethics of Emancipation
Human dignity is not decreed, it is conquered. Through the authentic exercise of our freedom and our capacity to emancipate ourselves from the norms that confine us, (…)

Presence in the Unexpected

Presence in the Unexpected

The art of grafting the unexpected.
Faced with the unexpected that thwarts the best-laid plans, should we resist or open ourselves? Perhaps the issue is not so much in this question. Let us explore the (…)

The Group Flag

The Group Flag

Between cohesion and freedom: the fertile paradox of shared culture.
How can a common symbol liberate singularities? I propose here a reflection on the paradoxical role of the “group flag” function as guarantor of collective (…)

The Misguided Debate on Funding Cuts for Culture

The Misguided Debate on Funding Cuts for Culture

Rethinking the Role of Public Funding Beyond the Numbers
In 2025, debates over funding cuts for culture are heating up, following unprecedented reductions in public subsidies and a political shift in this direction. It is (…)

Presence of abandoned luggage

Presence of abandoned luggage

On the security fantasy.
When fear of the unpredictable transforms forgetting into threat, an entire society tips into a security fiction. In French public transport, a simple forgotten bag (…)

The Principle of Consequences and Oppositions

The Principle of Consequences and Oppositions

How two words can transform the narrative power of a screenplay.
Replacing “then” with “therefore” or “but”: this might be the simplest and most powerful advice for bringing meaning and emotion to stories. The power of logical (…)

For a narrative revolution of territories

For a narrative revolution of territories

The urgency of a horizontal cultural democracy.
What if true cultural power resided in the stories we write, daily, from our positions, with our words? Each territory produces a narrative. Not the frozen and smooth (…)

AI in Service of Democratic Transformation of Cultural Institutions

AI in Service of Democratic Transformation of Cultural Institutions

Methodological proposal inspired by process management, adapted to cultural sector values.
Artificial intelligence is most often deployed to optimize production chains, for example through their digitization to create a digital twin in order to find ways to (…)

Absence and privileges

Absence and privileges

The dynamics of citizen action, between the reproduction of privileges and genuine openness to the other.
I propose exploring two approaches to civic action: starting from one’s privileges to act altruistically, or opening oneself to the real needs of others. Without (…)

Implementing cultural dissemination

Implementing cultural dissemination

Towards a decentralized and participatory cultural network.
Faced with the crisis of cultural democratization and a growing disengagement of public action in the cultural domain, new forms of artistic distribution are (…)

The Simulacrum of Presence

The Simulacrum of Presence

Towards an Epistemology of Personal Engagement.
I explain here why expert discourses that claim to objectively describe the world are simulacra, and why they can only lead to immobilism. I argue for an acknowledged (…)

Culture and political power: from a marriage of convenience to a consummated divorce

Culture and political power: from a marriage of convenience to a consummated divorce

From Louis XIV to Rachida Dati: anatomy of a rupture between subsidized culture and political legitimacy.
Culture is no longer the theater of power. Once an instrument of political influence, it now struggles to justify its public funding. How can we renew democratic (…)

Présence et expérience sociale

Présence et expérience sociale

La légitimité culturelle à l’épreuve du vécu.
Comment notre sentiment de légitimité façonne-t-il notre expérience culturelle ? Éclairons les dimensions sociales et politiques de la présence artistique, au-delà de (…)

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“Free GPU”

“Free GPU”

An energetic mise en abyme in the middle of the street, revealing the contradictions in the face of the climate emergency.
Two trucks with engines running advertise free GPU time for AI in front of the Council of State. The irony? Burning diesel to promote a technology that is itself (…)

What is a cultural policy? Why is culture political? And what is political in culture?

What is a cultural policy? Why is culture political? And what is political in culture?

A critical approach to cultural policies through the lens of cultural rights.
All culture is political because it imposes rules of belonging and worldviews. Exploring this dimension illuminates the democratic stakes of cultural policies. Why is (…)

The State of Openness

The State of Openness

For democratic and transformative facilitation.
How can we cultivate a welcoming posture that allows everyone to contribute fully? Openness is not a method but an inner state that transforms our facilitation (…)

Presence in culture

Presence in culture

For a conscious emancipation.
I allow myself a critique of the Freudian paradigm: what if human nature were intrinsically good? And I propose the concept of “presence in culture” to move beyond (…)

The mobile phone as a tool for cinematic creation

The mobile phone as a tool for cinematic creation

Revolutionizing practices and perspectives.
In twenty years, the mobile phone has revolutionized cinematic creation: as a tool always within reach, it enables the filming of the unexpected, the invention of new (…)

Traveling projections: reinventing cinema in public space

Traveling projections: reinventing cinema in public space

A new form of cinematographic distribution.
Traveling projections reinvent cinema by transforming public space into a place of sharing, where residents and passersby collectively experience the magic of images, (…)

The Too-Rapid Inversion of the Value System

The Too-Rapid Inversion of the Value System

For a Democracy of Dialogue in the Face of New Totalitarianisms.
Faced with the rise of extremisms, let us question our collective responsibility in the stigmatization of the other. I propose paths to reconnect with authentic (…)

Presence and Explanation

Presence and Explanation

For a critical mind based on inner grounding rather than on the accumulation of information.
Faced with fears, we seek unique and reassuring explanations. Only “presence” opens us to multiple explanations and grounds critical thinking. The universal need for (…)

Human Singularities in the Face of Artificial Intelligence

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 (…)

Presence and adaptation

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 (…)

Dilapidation of resources in supply logic

Dilapidation of resources in supply logic

For a democratic revolution of cultural practices.
Faced with the crisis in the cultural sector, it is urgent to shift from a top-down supply logic to a culture of connection and listening, inspired by digital (…)

Respecting Instructions

Respecting Instructions

When creative transgression becomes a source of learning.
The voluntary or involuntary transgression of instructions, often creative, if not considered as an error, becomes a source of enrichment and learning, opening the (…)

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Discovery

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Discovery

Towards new sonic universes created by machines.
In 2025, AI is radically transforming musical creation, opening unprecedented creative perspectives that question our relationship to art and authenticity. The (…)

The beginning of a future for the Left

The beginning of a future for the Left

Reflections on the contemporary contradictions of progressive thought.
How did the left find itself trapped within the system it fights against? Analysis of an insidious drift and sketch of a possible renewal. The progressive habituation (…)

Authorization Regime and Freedom Regime

Authorization Regime and Freedom Regime

When the confusion between authorization and freedom reveals a deep democratic crisis.
The management of the Covid-19 crisis revealed a fundamental confusion in our societies: we have overwhelmingly accepted to call “freedom” what was its exact (…)

The birth of the Pocket Films Festival (2005)

The birth of the Pocket Films Festival (2005)

An audiovisual revolution at the dawn of the mobile era.
Discovery of the origin and ethics of the Pocket Films Festival, the original laboratory for mobile phone audiovisual creation in 2005. Technological and commercial (…)

Participatory reverse photography workshop

Participatory reverse photography workshop

A method for deconstructing relationships with images.
Pedagogical method that transforms the phone into a tool for collective creation to question our relationship with images, democratize the creative act, and build (…)

The value of cultural practices for young people

The value of cultural practices for young people

Towards a coherent, cross-functional youth culture policy.
Cultural practices, whether traditional or digital, are essential to young people’s development. It seems important to me to open up reflection on their symbolic (…)

Political awareness and political conscience

Political awareness and political conscience

Between social conformity and authentic commitment.
What are our moral values worth when tested by reality? Between deep conviction and reassuring conformism, how do we distinguish authentic engagement from the (…)

Education in the age of artificial intelligence

Education in the age of artificial intelligence

Rethinking our practices for a changing world.
AI disrupts our relationship to knowledge, thus questioning the foundations of education. This transformation goes beyond the technical to touch upon the (…)

Formalizing the informal

Formalizing the informal

Informality, essential to learning, resists structure while calling for it. How to tame it.
The absence of informal aspects in distance learning forces us to rethink its fundamental nature. This constraint becomes a laboratory for innovation, developing (…)

Cultural data and cultural rights

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 (…)

Truth and truthful religion

Truth and truthful religion

When scientific certainty becomes dogma.
Some researchers believe they hold absolute truth, while obscuring questions that disturb them. This dominating posture reveals a form of “veridist religion,” which (…)

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