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Cet article etudie la reference de Lacan a la cybernetique, dans le Seminaire II pour l’essentiel. Notre but est de montrer le role central de cette reference dans le dispositif de Lacan (puisqu’elle soutient l’autonomie du symbolique) et, en confrontant les textes de Lacan a ceux de Wiener, son caractere problematique.

La philosophie analytique s’est progressivement integree au paysage philosophique francais, ou elle dit apporter une attention particuliere a l’echange d’arguments. Mais ou se situe la rupture ? La nouveaute reside moins dans la recherche de rationalite, partagee par toute philosophie, que dans une revendication polemique du monopole de l’argument qui peut mener a un refus du dialogue avec le reste de la philosophie.

Our societies have now gone almost fully digital, which is bound to impact the ways in which the self apprehends itself, constructs itself and takes part in society. This collective essay draws upon philosophy, logics, literature and media studies to explore a variety of responses to what is currently at stake in the recomposition of the subject through our daily digital experience. Attempting to chart the digital traces human beings leave behind them, in writing or in archives, it situates them in the larger political, economic and financial frame of our times.

In an interview with the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer described Tree of Codes as a kind of unplugged work of art: “On the brink of the end of paper, I was attracted to the idea of a book that can’t forget it has a body.” A book, then, that refused to become an electrical current. This might seem a curiously paradoxical place to start with when focusing on the digital, yet, in the very conception of his work, Foer produced a hybrid object which not only challenges what a book is, but a...