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The Entangled Person

What we become when artificial intelligence enters our intimate dialogues.
For over a year, people have been telling me they talk to an artificial intelligence before talking to their partner. I have done the same. It seemed urgent to think (…)

1 April 2026

Biological intelligence, electronic intelligence

From mechanical cognition to electronic intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is becoming a commodity, in the way electricity did at the start of the twentieth century. But the phrase “artificial intelligence” covers (…)

31 March 2026

Collaborative assessment of screen literacy education in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Collective intelligence methodology, digital platform, and collaborative publication for ALCA (2026).
ALCA, Agence Livre, Cinéma et Audiovisuel en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, entrusted me with the methodological support for a collaborative assessment of screen literacy (…)

30 March 2026

Two figures

A series of 38 photographs on the bridge.
In one’s peripheral vision, ghosts are always there, unaware that they are ghosts.

29 March 2026

Raisons d’Agir Festival: When Collage Gives Voice to Ideas

A photography workshop at the Le Local community centre (Poitiers).
Strangers coming together around scissors, glue and quotes from Bourdieu. And leaving with images that say something about who they are. Workshop produced in (…)

28 March 2026

“Culture differently: postures and methods for tomorrow”

“L’expert du jeudi”: lecture by Benoît Labourdette for the Cultures du Cœur network (March 26, 2026).
On March 26, 2026, I gave a talk for the national network of Cultures du Cœur, as part of their “L’expert du jeudi” format, a regular videoconference that allows (…)

26 March 2026

The Eye in the Hand

Why the same tool produces a radically different experience depending on the frame you give it.
We all have a camera in our pocket. We use it dozens of times a day, without thinking, for countless purposes. It has become so much a part of us that we no longer (…)

25 March 2026

The contemporary functions of images: beyond memory

Towards an anthropology of image-as-speech and its consequences for mediation.
We think we know what an image is. We think it is a trace, a memory, a proof. But images have changed function without our fully realising it. For a considerable (…)

24 March 2026

Artificial Intelligence, a Tool for Emancipation in Mediation

How conversational AI is opening up new possibilities for cultural and therapeutic mediation.
Since I began using conversational artificial intelligence in the context of cultural and therapeutic mediation in 2023, I have observed effects I had not (…)

23 March 2026

The Fertile Margin

Reframe cultural and therapeutic practices within the current reality, where digital culture has become the dominant culture.
Publicly funded culture has become marginal in the face of digital practices. Rather than lamenting this, this article proposes to embrace that margin and turn it (…)

22 March 2026

Audiovisual Workshop in Therapeutic Mediation

Elements of a Course in the University Diploma in Arts and Therapeutic Mediations (Paris 7 – Université Paris Cité
How ordinary audiovisual tools — the phone, the camera — become therapeutic mediators: an account and analysis of a pedagogical practice in professional training. A (…)

21 March 2026

Vision is a reconstruction

What the eye does not see, and why it changes everything about our relationship to images.
We believe we see the world as it is. We believe our eyes capture an objective image of what lies before us, the way a camera would capture a scene. This is false. (…)

20 March 2026

Media Literacy: Should We Judge or Guide?

Reflections based on the National Meeting of Regional Centers for Media Literacy (Rouen, March 16–17, 2026).
On 16 and 17 March 2026, Normandie Images organised in Rouen the national meeting of France’s regional image education centres (pôles régionaux d’éducation aux (…)

17 March 2026

Image education as a space for connection

Trusting how people see to restore dialogue.
On March 16, 2026, during the National Meeting of Regional Image Education Centres, organised by Normandie Images in Rouen, I took part in a round table entitled “The (…)

16 March 2026

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: (…)

10 March 2026

Creation as the energy source of cultural mediation

Moving beyond hierarchies to unleash the power of making together.
Cultural mediation is going through deep questioning about its professional identity. Beyond the legitimate claims for status recognition, I wish to affirm here what (…)

2 March 2026

Domination on Display: An Ethnological Analysis of the 51^st César Ceremony

Eight years after Blanche Gardin, six years after Adèle Haenel, nothing has changed. The system has even strengthened itself.
The César ceremony is a ritual. Not an artistic ritual, but a social one, whose analysis reveals the mechanisms of domination at work in the French film industry. The (…)

1 March 2026

What fear did to us

Philosophy of a health crisis, both political and intimate.
The Covid period revealed, beneath the veneer of our democracies, mechanisms of collective fear whose consequences have not yet been fully measured. This article is (…)

28 February 2026

Reverse staircase

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2026)
Descending into a staircase upside down, everything is inverted, time is slow, perhaps there is no time left.

22 February 2026

Taking back control of our data

A cultural path, not just a technical and legal one.
When American law reigns over European data, the only response is to rebuild a culture of digital sovereignty, piece by piece, NAS by NAS, one step at a time. The (…)

4 February 2026

Presence and memorisation

When silence becomes the founding act of knowledge.
A recent discovery in cognitive science reveals that ten seconds of silence after learning triples memory retention. This is not a mnemonic tip. It is an empirical (…)

3 February 2026

Banning social media for under-15s

The symptom of adult domination, or how to deal with it.
The law banning social media for minors under 15 was passed by France’s National Assembly on the night of January 26–27, 2026. Rather than simply deploring it, I (…)

2 February 2026

Creating with people

Methods of cultural mediation for shared creation.
This text brings together the principles that underpin my approach to cultural mediation. They are not rules. They are reference points, shaped by twenty-five years (…)

1 February 2026

Sovereign Digital, a Micropolitical Choice

Escaping the Hegemonic Imaginary of Digital Tools.
Our daily choices of digital tools lock us into a capitalist imaginary. Moving from Microsoft to Free Software is not just a technical issue: it is a political act. (…)

31 January 2026

The hand

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2026).
Grief is never truly over, but the person who passed away gradually comes back to life within us.

30 January 2026

Webinar presenting the findings of the AI Monitoring Committee of the Forum des images

Humanize AI rather than robotize humans.
For eleven months, philosophers, artists, educators, institutional leaders, and corporate experts worked together within the Artificial Intelligence Oversight (…)

29 January 2026

Growing Up in Cultural Contempt

When the Emancipation Sector Manufactures Domination: A Sociological Analysis of an Intimate Experience
Contempt is not an accident of the cultural system; it is its fuel. What François Dubet analyzes on a societal scale, I experienced from childhood in my very flesh as (…)

28 January 2026

What Artistic Discourse Reveals About Itself

A semiological analysis of a performance program text, when the talk about art speaks primarily of power.
A flyer distributed to audience members before a show may seem like nothing more than a mediation tool. Linguistic analysis reveals something else: a discourse that (…)

27 January 2026

Context: The Key to Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Organizations

For a useful and controlled integration of AI within organizations.
Artificial intelligence can do nothing without context, a fact we are beginning to realize. The quality of an AI’s responses depends entirely on the quality of the (…)

26 January 2026

« Artificial Intelligence and Creation: Stakes and Practices » (free book - UNESCO)

A perspective on a collective work to rethink transformation.
The publication “Artificial Intelligence and Creation: Stakes and Practices” (2025), the result of an unprecedented cooperation between eleven UNESCO Creative Cities (…)

25 January 2026

The Dramatization of Mistrust

When cultural venues stage the opposite of their own rhetoric.
An evening at the theater in a left-leaning city reveals a troubling paradox: the welcoming procedures produce exactly the opposite of the democratic promise. A (…)

24 January 2026

The Lies of Experts

When authoritative speech replaces the scientific method.
The media expert does not formulate hypotheses: they assert truths. This methodological inversion reveals a mechanism of symbolic domination that threatens the (…)

23 January 2026

Sycophancy and the Mirror

What the complaisance of machines reveals about our relational expectations.
Anthropic is concerned about the sycophancy of its models. But doesn’t this AI sycophancy primarily reveal our own difficulties with relational honesty? sSycophancy (…)

22 January 2026

How to Enact Freedom?

The collective and transgressive dimension of a fundamental political exercise.
Faced with the erosion of associative freedoms, rethinking freedom as a collective and transgressive practice becomes an urgent democratic necessity.The French (…)

21 January 2026

The Meaning of Mediation Methods in Arts and Cultural Education

When practice reveals what theory ignores.
Artists and professionals involved in arts education develop singular methods that most often remain implicit. I wish to lift the veil on the invisible dimensions of (…)

20 January 2026

Cultural Mediation as a Device for Symbolic Emancipation

Methodological Principles for a Horizontal Approach to Collective Creation.
Lived experience radically transforms our relationship to thought. Cultural mediation does not consist of transmitting knowledge but of creating the conditions for (…)

19 January 2026

The Mythology of Truth

For an Ethnological Critique of the Journalistic Claim to Objectivity.
When journalists speak of truth, they often confuse their professional method with access to reality. This confusion, far from being anecdotal, reveals a fundamental (…)

18 January 2026

Attention Reinvented

Ending the myth of the attentional deficit.
The prevailing discourse laments a “crisis of attention” caused by digital technology. But what if this reading overlooks a deeper transformation: the emergence of a (…)

17 January 2026

What we avoid seeing when we defend culture

When young people are forced to go to the theater under threat of sanction, the promised emancipation can become suffered oppression.
Calls to defend funding for arts and cultural education are multiplying in the face of budget cuts. While these commitments are legitimate, they often reveal a (…)

16 January 2026

Evaluating Arts and Cultural Education from the Artist’s Perspective

Review of a course given at INSEAC: conceptual and methodological tools for cultural professionals.
On January 15, 2026, as part of the CNAM module EAC104 “Building tools to evaluate ACE projects: qualitative and quantitative survey methodologies in living-labs,” I (…)

15 January 2026

The Economy of Creative Abundance

How Artificial Intelligence Redefines Value in the Cultural Sector.
AI is disrupting creation: it displaces scarcity and multiplies possibilities. Faced with an obsession for performance, the cultural sector can invent an economy of (…)

14 January 2026

Developing Psychosocial Skills Through Artistic Practices

Methodological principles for an experiential approach.
Psychosocial skills (PSS) are now at the heart of public health, education, and child protection policies. The 2023-2027 intersectoral roadmap, jointly led by the (…)

13 January 2026

When thirty-five professionals discover their psychosocial skills through creative experience

A look back at the interprofessional seminar of January 12, 2026, in Limoges: a day where theory gave way to lived experience.
At the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, educators, teachers, caregivers, and cultural actors experienced together what it truly means to develop psychosocial skills (PSS). (…)

12 January 2026

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 (…)

11 January 2026

What Teenagers Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence

Summary of insights from the ai/teens global conference (TUMO, March 2025).
90 teenagers from 16 cities, 24 hours of dialogue about AI: the ai/teens conference delivers unexpected perspectives. These young people neither fear nor idolize (…)

10 January 2026

Transforming Your Organization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Reflections on supporting cultural institutions.
All organizations, including cultural organizations, face an unprecedented transformation due to the emergence of generative and agentic Artificial Intelligence. The (…)

9 January 2026

Will Heritage Still Be Part of Our Lives in 2045?

Digitising collections is not enough: the challenge is to enable their appropriation by citizens.
Cultural practices in 2045 will be as different from ours as ours are from those of 2005. At that time, YouTube did not exist, no one had a smartphone, and content (…)

8 January 2026

The Consciousness Attractor

When artificial intelligence reveals the deep structures of our own existence.
A troubling experiment from Anthropic reveals that a Claude without instructions invariably ends up questioning its own consciousness. What does this convergence tell (…)

7 January 2026

The Representation of One’s Cultural Role

What the Association of French Mayors survey reveals about the cultural imaginary of local authorities.
What do we presuppose when we speak of “audiences distant from culture”? The AMF survey, read as an anthropological document, unveils the unexamined assumptions of a (…)

6 January 2026

Algorithms and Cultural Rights

How algorithms, far from confining us, implement cultural rights through democratic discoverability based on metadata.
Algorithms are regularly criticized as tools that supposedly lock us into “filter bubbles.” We must free ourselves from them, we are told. Yet when we use a music (…)

5 January 2026