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3 October 2026
Nearly twenty years ago, I called Hypermoi the part of ourselves deposited on the network: texts, images, opinions, desires, fragments of an identity that keeps circulating after its author is gone. The question was not only what the internet preserved. It was what those pieces…
2 October 2026
The world is born from chaos: cosmogonies In Genesis, the earth is “formless and void.” Hesiod begins with Chaos. Norse stories open an abyss, Ginnungagap, between fire and ice. In Egypt, the waters of Nun precede the land. In Chinese tradition, Pangu emerges from an egg. These…
30 September 2026
We are told that the Web has changed. That is a convenient way of avoiding the question of who changed it, who profited, and who lost the power to act within it. Millions of people wrote, filmed, coded, photographed, annotated and linked pages. They built an unprecedented collec…
29 September 2026
According to legend, five hundred years ago, a rabbi in Prague shaped a body from the mud of a river and brought it to life with a word. Today, millions of people shape text, images and sound from the same raw material: a sentence typed into an empty window. Between the two, not…
28 September 2026
I watch robots learn to walk, carry, sort and inspect. In a commercial warehouse deployment, Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes. In January 2026, Boston Dynamics unveiled a product version of Atlas, announcing deployments with Hyundai and Google DeepMind. These bodies enter…
26 September 2026
Creating for a world in which we will no longer be hereSomewhere inside a mountain in West Texas, a clock is being built that may still be running after almost everything we know has disappeared. It does not really measure our time. It measures our absence.The Clock of the Long…
23 September 2026
In 1986, a young hacker writing as The Mentor published The Conscience of a Hacker after his arrest. “My crime is that of curiosity” does not ask for leniency; it turns the accusation around. Who decides that opening a box, understanding a protocol or sharing knowledge is a crim…
22 September 2026
In January 2024, for an exhibition project at the Centre Pompidou’s Hors Pistes festival, I asked an AI a deliberately naïve question: “Who is the winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in discipline X?” The Games had not begun. The machine nevertheless selected real athletes from the…
21 September 2026
I am drawn to Conway’s Game of Life because it overturns the usual relationship to creation. We do not draw a form: we set conditions. We do not tell a story: we watch what a rule makes possible. The world is an infinite grid. Each square is alive or dead. At every generation, i…
20 September 2026
A catalogue for changing the world In 1968, Stewart Brand, an American writer and editor and a figure in countercultural networks, launched the Whole Earth Catalog. It brought together books, tools, techniques and resources for learning, building, growing food and organising col…
18 September 2026
Today we ask artificial intelligence to make images. Then we ask it to animate those images, give them a voice, music, a story. I would like to ask a stranger question: can it take part in an artwork that cannot be reduced to what it represents? Audiovisual and narrative product…
11 September 2026
…ar, CC BY-SA 3.0.Humanpédia: building a universal memory through oral transmission. A project by David Guez.Thirty years later, we find ourselves facing contemporary artificial intelligences and this immense question: where are we going? Alone or together? ... with or without th…