The world to come will be populated by robots, we will intervene on our genes, we will artificially manufacture living things, we will live in societies that will ask us to obey decisions formulated by algorithms that we will not understand. Every day, new techniques, scientific advances, facts and figures of life will be revealed.
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The Ministry of the Environment opened its doors last night to two sacred monsters of philosophy: Edgar Morin and Patrick Viveret. In a debate moderated by Gilles Bœuf, professor at the Collège de France, and punctuated by the charm of the young playwright David Wahl, only one question was asked: "Is the man
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Corine Pelluchon belongs to this new generation of philosophers who see their thinking in action. Voluntarily subversive, she fights to integrate ecology and the consideration of the animal condition in a new social contract. She is a philosopher of existence who is working, without complex, to re-found the old "animal" and the new "animal".
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Comment prendre au sérieux nos manières de cultiver, manger, goûter ? Peuvent-elles forger une nouvelle vision de l’homme et régénérer l’écologie politique ? Ce sera le thème de la dernière séance du cycle Questions de vie de la Mairie du 2ème arrondissement de Paris le 5 avril 2016, avec Corinne Pelluchon,
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The world to come will be populated by robots, we will intervene on our genes, we will artificially manufacture living things, we will live in societies that will ask us to obey decisions formulated by algorithms that we will not understand. Every day, new techniques, scientific advances, facts and figures of life will be revealed.
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The idea of progress is doubly consoling. First, it is a consoling idea because, by underpinning the hope of a future improvement in our living conditions, by making a desirable utopia glimmer far down the timeline, it makes history humanly bearable. It is also consoling in that it gives a
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Tant que l’on s’en tient aux équilibres de la nature, on perpétue les dualismes de la modernité (qui opposent l’homme et la nature, l’artificiel et le naturel, la culture et la nature) en se contentant d’en inverser les signes : au lieu de louer en l’homme le conquérant de la nature,
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Since that unfortunate Friday 13 November, French society has found itself, brutally, in an episode in its history that will undoubtedly mark a profound change. We are living through a mutation that troubles and questions us. How can we understand it? France can be proud of its intellectuals; many of them have been
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On assiste depuis les années 1980 à une spiritualisation croissante de l’écologie. De nombreuses voix s’élèvent pour dépasser le dualisme nature/culture, l’idée d’une nature-objet-ressource et le paradigme dominant de l’anthropocentrisme ; il s’agit de reconnaître une valeur intrinsèque, et donc des droits, à la nature, qui devient désormais sujet. En
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Paule Pérez is a philosopher and psychoanalyst; she brings here her point of view on current events and information processing. It is true that "news" is not always news. Repetitions, repressions, reversals, formations of the Unconscious, unexpected transmissions, denials abound, as well as distortions, deafness, blindness or
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Rien ne va plus chez les Yahoos. Où en est le rapport psychanalyse et société ? Depuis trente ans, c’est-à-dire depuis qu’on a pu prendre la mesure des effets du premier choc pétrolier et anticiper ceux de la mondialisation, on parle des « nécessités d’adapter les formes d’organisation et les modes
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Paule Pérez is a philosopher and psychoanalyst; she brings here her point of view on current events and information processing. It is true that "news" is not always news. Repetitions, repressions, reversals, formations of the Unconscious, unexpected transmissions, denials abound, as well as distortions, deafness, blindness or
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The industrial world is on trial. Farm of a Thousand Cows, rejected by hundreds of activists, some of whom are appearing today for having dismantled the milking parlour. Sivens Dam, whose opponents are in mourning after the death of one of them, Rémi Fraisse, victim of clashes with the police,
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On the occasion of the publication of his last book (1), Edwy Plenel denounced: "One accepts the other on condition that he is no longer himself". Our era is living through an astonishing paradox: it wants to erase the distinctive signs of peoples by subjecting them to the constraints of a civilization
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Ce n’est pas parce que les états des énergies et de la matière manifestent tous, naissance et mort, que la nature (l’essence, la source) des durées (du temps), eut un commencement et qu’elle aura une fin. Bien que mesurable et pouvant être représenté par des symboles, le temps n’a aucune
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