An interview with Félix Tréguer published on Lundi.am
The history of the Internet is known and widely documented, from the creation of the network by the American army to Tiktok, including the Minitel and the 56K modems that go “ding dong”. What Félix Tréguer, founding member of La Quadrature du Net and researcher at the CNRS, is proposing is perhaps quite the opposite: a Counter-history of the Internet, from the 15th century to the present day (Éditions Agone), i.e. a archeology of the network, of algorithmic logic and of the exploitation of metadata as devices of power and control, incorporated in us, in spite of us. A historical-political research against time or against the light which reveals the strategies of power and capture of public space and seeks a path to escape from this dichotomy which locks us in as soon as we try to think about technique: the neo-Luddite fantasy or the blissful belief in cognitive capitalism. Between a flight backward and a virtual sinking into the present, trace a flight forward, as one escapes from a trap.
Podcast to listen to on LundiMatin
2024-01-13 17:06:13
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