Alors que la croisade de Vincent Bolloré dans l'édition fait des remous, c'est le moment de relire notre radiographie de son empire et sa stratégie de contrôle de l'information et de la culture grâce à l'argent gagné notamment en Afrique

Toujours en accès libre 🔗 multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/...

"The alternative to digital sovereignty as AI acceleration – with its adjacent techno-fascism – means refusing the arms race altogether, opening up our imaginaries to cultivating an 'art of leisure', a different relationship to time and space..."

www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/04/0...

How to Study the Phenomenon of Tech Hype A group of researchers and journalists is developing a line of inquiry they call "Hype Studies" to look at the social and political impact of tech hype.

AI hype is everywhere. Recent guests on the Tech Policy Press podcast are studying this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, building out a line of inquiry they call "Hype Studies." They want to understand the social and political dimensions of tech hype, and what it portends.

The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy - Greenpeace International The AI boom is not progress if it deepens extraction, environmental harm and attacks on democracy. From Ireland to New Jersey, people are resisting a model of AI development that concentrates profit a...

Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm.

And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.

Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Photo of the Cyclop watching Ulysses through its connected appliances (Alexa Brunet)

Check out Alexa Brunet's photo series on her website: www.alexabrunet.fr/-/galleries/...

Here is the translation of the introduction I wrote, where I explore the didactic virtues of Greek myths for thinking through the tensions between technological progress and emancipation.

www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/03/0...

Original PDF in French: www.felixtreguer.fr/files/d%C3%A...

Cover of the book Odyssée 2.0.

3 years ago Odyssée 2.0 came out, a book in French born from a photographic and literary project freely inspired by Homer’s myth. Together with photographer Alexa Brunet, we traced Ulysses’ wanderings through Technopolis, a fictional and dystopian “Smart City.”

A Panopticon for All About: Félix Tréguer, Technopolice. La surveillance policière à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle, Divergences

From surveillance to algorithmic policing to corporate-public entanglement, "technopolice" extends the logics of control in democracies. 📹🚨

My review of 'Technopolice' by Félix Tréguer @felixtreguer.bsky.social is now available in English on Books & Ideas 📘⤵️
booksandideas.net/A-Panopticon...

white billboard with graffiti saying things like 'fuck ice and AI' and 'dream by yourselves'

the friend billboards have made it to paris and people are responding appropriately

Les étudiants non européens et non boursiers vont être privés d’aides au logement Le Conseil constitutionnel a validé l’article du projet de loi de finances qui exclut de l’aide personnalisée au logement les étudiants étrangers extracommunautaires. Les associations dénoncent un gl…

Le #ConseilConstitutionnel a validé la suppression des #APL pour les étudiant-es étranger-es. La #LDH et ses partenaires dénoncent cette mesure constituant une atteinte au droit au logement et rappellent qu’elle est indigne pour les personnes concernées, souvent précaires.

To claim something you need to be able to prove it. So what’s actually behind claims that AI can help solve climate change and what does the evidence actually say? Read the report @ketanjoshi.co: beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...
@stand.earth @foeus.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social & more!

4. Against the naive belief that political decisions alone can steer technology away from capitalist and ecocidal predation, Carnino insists that the complex socio-technical networks on which we've grown dependent enforce "social prescriptions", "an inertial force and momentum".

3. In presenting the contemporary digital economy's challenges as unique and specific, they overlook structural elements of technical networks throughout industrial capitalism's history: public investment for private profits, colonial extractivism for commodities, etc.

2. In claiming that current digital technologies can be made more sober and work for emancipation, they neglect the massive material impact of digital infrastructures (computer chips and screens, fiber-optic cables, data centers, internet exchange points, etc.).

1. By framing China as an alternative to Silicon Valley in enforcing state control over markets and an accelerated model for "green transition" through industrial innovation, they implicitly condone Chinese authoritarianism—including social credit systems.

Carnino hits hard, but is right to call attention to dangerous claims made by these two Marxist scholars:

To continue on #LeftWingAccelerationism (mamot.fr/@felix/11574...), see this critique (in French) by Guillaume Carnino of Cédric Durand and Ramzig Keucheyan's proposals for a digitally-mediated "green economy". www.terrestres.org/2026/02/12/a...

In addition, you can read this article providing an overview of French case law on the right to information regarding partially automated administrative decisions, written by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. revuedlf.com/droit-admini...

Protester contre le numérique, refuser les compteurs communicants. ... Introduction Le 18 mars 2009, Jean Vigneron, directeur de projet au sein du distributeur d’électricité Enedis, dévoile en conférence de presse un nouveau compteur d’électricité « Linky » à destinat...

« La contestation vise moins la technologie en soi que la manière dont elle est imposée, au nom d’une modernisation présentée comme inéluctable. » Un article de la sociologue Aude Danieli sur les mobilisations anti-Linky dans la revue RESET. journals.openedition.org/reset/6620

Picture of some presentation slides as part of the PolTec seminar series

Another thought-provoking UCC Political Technologies series talk earlier today, this time by Dr @felixtreguer.bsky.social. Merci!
Check out the cluster’s website (shorturl.at/00PDZ) for more info & upcoming seminars.
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

Some key obstruction strategies we identified: abusive legal interpretations, delays as de facto denials, unsanctioned non-compliance, unwarranted good-faith presumptions, undue redaction, unacceptable invocation of trade secrets. www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/02/0...

Last March, I was invited to give a talk at the Algorithmic transparency and the digital rule of law conference at the Sciences Po. My goal was to build on @laquadrature.bsky.social's campaigns around tech-policing and automated welfare to illustrate practical hurdles to aglorithmic transparency.

Une de ses rares évocations explicites de l'informatique...

Foucault, l'année de la création de la CNIL : « Aujourd'hui, le contrôle est moins sévère et plus raffiné, mais il n'en est pas moins terrifiant pour autant. (...) Chaque individu, considéré séparément, est normalisé et transformé en un cas contrôlé par un IBM ». 1libertaire.free.fr/MFoucault326...

« La bulle des investissements dans l’IA est 17 fois plus importante que celle de la bulle internet en 2000 (...). L’adoption de la technologie de l’IA par les entreprises reste faible et est même en baisse parmi les grandes. » www.contretemps.eu/bulle-ia-eco... #AIbubble

L'État entend construire 28GW de puissance installée en nouveaux Data Centers, soit presque la moitié de l'énergie produite par le parc nucléaire français... 😑
www.economie.gouv.fr/actualites/rencontres-de...

Pour tenter de clarifier les termes du débat, je propose d’appréhender l’IA à la fois comme mot d’ordre technocratique et comme dispositif de pouvoir au sens foucaldien, pour la replacer dans l’histoire des techniques de communication. Quelques extraits : www.felixtreguer.fr/2026/01/21/p...

Le chapitre que j’ai écrit pour l’occasion s’intitule « L’IA comme accélération de la domination bureaucratique et capitaliste ». J’y fais part d’une certaine frustration vis-à-vis des discours sur l’IA dans le champ intellectuel. À en croire certains, dénoncer l’IA « en bloc » n’aurait pas de sens.

Ce mois-ci paraît le livre collectif « Penser l’intelligence artificielle – Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l’automatisation numérique », dirigé par Anne Alombert, Alban Leveau-Vallier, Baptiste Loreaux, aux éditions des Presses du réel. www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?...