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Biotechronicity: When Our Lives Sync to Platform Clocks
As we build our lives online, a risk quietly takes hold: losing exclusive ownership of our own biography.
Mar 3
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Laurent François
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Selfie-verse: Political Embodiment in the Industrial Age
In the age of AI avatars, the face becomes a strategic interface again. Debrief of the roundtable “Politics in Selfie Mode,” held during InfoCom Day…
Feb 24
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Laurent François
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Stay vs Play: How TikTok Hijacked Political Communication
Decoding TikTok’s “Stay & Play” model: when the algorithm and astroturfing replace campaign logic with a vibe.
Feb 17
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Laurent François
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Half-line: neither disconnected nor possessed
Control over our online time is not an elite luxury; it is a form of sovereignty to be reclaimed, far beyond the opposition between being chronically…
Feb 10
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Laurent François
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How Not to Become an Algorithm in the Age of Physical AI
In her latest book, Selfpressionnism – What If AI Made Us More Human?, Marie Dollé offers pathways for navigating the coming technological revolutions.
Feb 3
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Laurent François
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Forced Intimacy: Game Over on Social Media?
Nov 5, 2024
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Laurent François
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Algofluence: Feeling the Urge to Unplug?
Feb 18, 2025
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Laurent François
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Ghost Posting: Publishing for No One
Jan 7, 2025
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Laurent François
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The meaning of moodboarding
Mar 18, 2025
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Laurent François
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Digital Oaths
Creating a moral debt toward a community promises a certain form of authenticity in the age of post-truth.
Aug 26, 2025
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Laurent François
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AI is alive.
The human vs. machine divide often misses an essential part of the story: our relationship to what seems alive, and the recognition of the living.
Aug 19, 2025
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Laurent François
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Digital Sabotage
We are not the junkies of digital platforms. We are their drug. The algorithm craves order. Let’s give it chaos.
Jul 1, 2025
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Laurent François
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Biotechronicity: When Our Lives Sync to Platform Clocks
As we build our lives online, a risk quietly takes hold: losing exclusive ownership of our own biography.
Mar 3
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Laurent François
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Selfie-verse: Political Embodiment in the Industrial Age
In the age of AI avatars, the face becomes a strategic interface again. Debrief of the roundtable “Politics in Selfie Mode,” held during InfoCom Day…
Feb 24
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Laurent François
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Stay vs Play: How TikTok Hijacked Political Communication
Decoding TikTok’s “Stay & Play” model: when the algorithm and astroturfing replace campaign logic with a vibe.
Feb 17
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Laurent François
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Unarchive Everything, Beyond 2016
Against the optimization of our identities on social media, unarchiving is a form of rebellion and a celebration of our humanity
Jan 27
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Laurent François
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Anti-engagement
In response to algorithmic saturation, a new generation of creators is moving away from total transparency in order to cultivate mystery and cult-like…
Jan 20
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Laurent François
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Deepfie, the Age of the Oracle-Mirror
Between us and the machine, there is no longer a reflection, only a gaze that learns. The deepfie is what the selfie becomes when it ceases to be an…
Jan 13
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Laurent François
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