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Fictions-Science: Quantifying the World
The "Fictions-Science" events question the dramatic or unanticipated effects of innovations on tomorrow's society. Setting the world into numbers is part of the technological enthusiasm that considers digital technology as the privileged instrument of good governance, social change, democratization, and personal empowerment.
What can digital intelligence teach us? Can our lives and our society really be quantified? How did we move from a distrust of statistics to the widespread use of data collection and the reign of correlation?
A geographer, a philosopher, an artist, and researchers from IRCAM will share their thoughts and experiences with the audience.
A discussion moderated by Céline Loozen producer France Culture with
Pierre Cassou-Noguès philosopher, université Paris 8, author of La bienveillance des machines (Seuil, 2022)
Guillaume Doras researcher, IRCAM
Pierre Giner artist, curator and set designer
Denise Pumain geographer, co-founder of the Géographie-Cités laboratory