In 2017 – in partnership with the Institut Mines-Télécom – the Subjectivity, corporeality and connected objects seminar (part of the Forms, Technologies, Society research programme) provided an opportunity to question the impact of contemporary digital technologies and their forms on the evolution of subjectivities.
This seminar gave rise to a series of lectures by thinkers, artists and designers (Bernard Stiegler, Béatrice Lartigue [Studio Lab212], Thierry Vila, Hélène Jeannin, Laurent Bonotte, Samuel Bianchini Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Serge Tisseron, Olivier Peyricot, etc.) which will shortly be published by Presses des Mines.
The graphic design of the book was the subject of a workshop supervised by Laurent Mészáros and Olaf Avenati accompanied by 4ᵉ year students: Guillaume Andres, Amélie Blachère, Charles Dessaint, Grégoire Garmichon, Hoyam Mraizika, Laurie Paolin, Antoine Sigur and Maïa Xavier.
Four submissions were produced by students working in pairs, with the aim of challenging the conventional format of the university press book. The students explored paratexts, image calls or the addition of iconography to comment on the texts.
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Laurie Paolin & Maïa Xavier
Guillaume Andres & Antoine Sigur
Charles Dessaint & Grégoire Gamichon
Amélie Blachère & Hoyam Mraizika
Publication
Since May 2022, the book has been on sale in bookshops and online, on the Presses des Mines website.
Our bodies are now embedded in data flows. Our new experiences of the senses, of moving around and of being together are being radically altered in the era of hyper-connection and Big Data. But what does this new way of looking at our bodies (from our own bodies to the social body) mean? What impact does this digital condition have on our lives? This book looks at these questions through contributions from a variety of fields, including art, design, philosophy, sociology and psychology, opening up avenues of analysis that are as heterogeneous as they are complementary. The aim is to open up new avenues for critical, hermeneutic and societal reflection on the way in which our subjectivities are affected by the way our bodies are put on display.
- Directed by Armen Katchatourov, Olaf Avenati, Pierre-Antoine Chardel, and Isabelle Queval
- French
- 200 pages (black and white)
- 16 x 24cm.
- ISBN: 9782356717658
- Publication date: May 2022