Ringvorlesung | Filter Reality

Last summer, in 40°C temperatures, an area of around 30,000 hectares of pine forest (a rectangle 10 by 30 kms) on the south west coast of France was burnt in a massive megafire. More than 32,000 people, many of whom were tourists, were evacuated. I was among these. I started collecting videos on social networks in which people told of their stories. Social networks seem to offer a version of the God in Gottfried Leibniz’s monadology, having access to the personal viewpoints of a multitude of individuals, whilst, at the same time, this very multiplicity produces distortions of reality: a filter that transforms reality. My interest is in both on the various filters that transform reality in social networks, and on the various ways of « being », « going » and « doing » wrong.

Bio

Pierre Cassou-Noguès is full professor at the university Paris 8 - Vincennes - Saint Denis. His recent work is on the role of fiction as a theoretical tool in order to explore our technological era. He has recently published: Technofictions (Cerf, 2019); La Bienveillance des machines (Seuil, 2022). He has also co-authored two films: Welcome to Erewhon (with S. Degoutin and G. Wagon, Irrévérence films 2019); Virusland 2020 (with G. Wagon, Irrévérence films 2022).

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