La « révolution numérique » : une révolution technicienne entre liberté et contrôle

• Main Author: André Vitalis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2015-03-01
• Series: Communiquer
• Subjects: digital revolution; spaces of freedom; pillage of personal datas; theories of multitudes; cognitive capitalism; post-media era
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/1494

The “digital revolution” understood through the thought of Jacques Ellul is a technical revolution with contrasting effects. It has paradoxically created new spaces of freedom at the cost of greater control over individual freedoms. Also, it has not constituted a solid basis for a liberating political revolution as assumed by the theories of multitudes, cognitive capitalism or post-media era. To realize the revolution needed in this 21st century, we must set objectives and boundaries to digital technical development by prioritizing those that promote self-government and human knowledge.