2024-10-25 08:00:00
Review of magazines. The success ofPublicmagazine of music criticism and theory, had already allowed its organizers to found a publishing house and launch the magazine Inhabitantwho took a similar approach to architecture. Since 2022 the brothers have been joined by a little sister. His name is Czech and wishes on his part “exploring the life of technologies and their impact on our lives through sensitive and erudite essays”.
Once or twice a year, its editors in chief, Loup Cellard and Guillaume Heuguet – one doctor in interdisciplinary studies, the other in media semiotics – express Czech a review in the form of a small anthology of critical texts, most of them translated from English, that sheds new light on the ideas, practices, actors and infrastructures that drive the vast digital world.
It’s kind of “a mix of anti-authoritarian ideas (liberal in the American sense) and right-wing economic liberalism (the active deregulation of market exchanges)”brought by former hackers and libertarian students of the counterculture and converts to capitalism. Upon closer inspection, however, things seem more complex and more worrying.
It outlines new lines of force
The essays collected in this volume demonstrate this by often taking on unexpected or unexplored perspectives. Thus the American academic Fred Turner chose, in a chapter selected by the magazine, to analyze the cultures of the prototype and of design thinking (“design thinking”) that have reigned over Silicon Valley since the 1990s, to better reveal how they have their roots in Protestant Puritan teleology.
For his part, the sociologist Fabien Foureault paints a portrait of it “new digital elites”in particular venture capitalists, to show the close ties that unite them… to the traditional bourgeois elites and large financial or industrial groups.
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