Cutting against the technophobic grain of philosophical traditions inspired by Heidegger and Habermas, Simondon’s book on « The mode of existence of technical objects » invites us to find a positive way beyond the critique of modernity. He offers a framework particularly appropriate for understanding the stakes of the « techno-nature » which has been accepted and appropriated by the hacker ethic, and for inquiring into its corresponding forms of political subjectivity. The unity of producer, technical object and user, which (...) for Simondon is part of the transindividuality of the machine, suggests a fresh treatment of the questions of the expressiveness of code, of open source, and of the constitution of connectionist collectivities. (shrink)

Les « émeutes de novembre 2005 » ont donné lieu à de nombreux discours développant une thèse particulièrement univoque et déniant toute capacité de s'exprimer à la jeunesse des cités. À partir d'une veille réalisée sur Internet et portant sur différents objets expressifs , cet article vise à montrer comment la « racaille » s'exprime, entre performance identitaire et resignification critique, en usant des ressources de l'expressivisme généralisé: le remix culturel ou la convergence créative des publics des jeux, de la (...) musique et de la télévision.The "riots of November 2005" resulted in numerous speeches developing a thesis and denying any particularly unique ability to speak to the youth of the cities. From a day on the internet and realized on various expressive objects , this article aims to show how the "scum" is expressed between performance and identity resignification critical, using the resources expressivism generalized: the remix convergence cultural or creative public games, music and television. (shrink)

Political activism via the internet raises two problems : the split between cyberspace and the street and the dissemination and solitude of cyberspace. Electronic resistance can now overcome both difficulties, if only locally and temporarily. First, thanks to the use of cell phones, it is now based on technologies capable of “looping” the digital nets, where information circulates, with the urban space. Second, thanks to the syndication of contents, it is now capable of linking, of generating commons, without in the (...) least diminishing the autonomy nor the singularity of the sites, blogs and subjectivities at work. The “media” perfectly deserve their name here, between the intimacy of the blog and the extimacy of the street. (shrink)