The science fiction author publishes an article inspired by his stay in Silicon Valley. To talk about that, he welcomed us to his home, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
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Alain Damasio walks and runs between the bushes of a hill in the Luberon, talking incessantly: “Digital technology has dematerialized everything… Everything has become information and flow… Even today's cars are less machines of sheet metal and more receptacles for personal data… We can imagine a form of material nostalgia that… We've seen it so far in San Francisco… The authors spend their time describing factories of depression and… » Damasio freezes before finishing his sentence. He runs his hand over a tree trunk, in which shapes appear that appear to have been engraved by an artist: “You see that? These traces are left by worms called imprinters. With Vincien Despres, we have fun comparing our interpretations of these writings. It's very funny.” » We barely have time to glance at the trunk before it starts walking faster.
Originally, the idea was just a discussion with Alain Damasio for an article he is publishing these days, entitled “Vallée du silicium”, the result of a trip to Silicon Valley after quarantine. The matter itself was already interesting: he is the author of three science fiction novels that have become classics, the last of which, “Les Furtifs,” can be read as a comprehensive critique of surveillance technologies, and he is the activist known for his efforts. …
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