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Keynote Speaker Conference at the Université catholique de l'Ouest - Niort Campus

If It Is "Intuitive", It Is Dumb: In Praise of Bugs Against GAFAM Rhetoric

If it's intuitive it's dumb, if it's easy it's dangerous, if it's simple it's flat. However, GAFAM rhetoric consists in making us believe that the tools are neutral and that they naturally offer "solutions" to our problems. When it's "intuitive", it means that there is no reflection. It is easy, it does not require any effort. Because thinking is difficult and tiring, thinking critically is even more difficult, counterintuitive and exhausting. It is counterintuitive to be free, to be subjected is so much more relaxing...

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