Society of Digital Distrust : Spring 2016 : Éric Laurent
by Julia Evans on March 1, 2016
Translated by Philip Dravers
p112-117 of The Lacanian Review : Issue 01 : Spring 2016
In response to
‘Desire for Certainty : Descartes and the order of reasons’ : 11th March 1991 (Buenos Aires) : Jacques-Alain Miller,
translated by Austin Gross,
p100-101 of The Lacanian Review : 01, Spring 2016
This section of papers is named ‘The God of Numbers’.
Introduction: Science is not scientism. In the opening text of this section, Jacques-Alain Miller specifies the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis with reference to Descartes, the philosopher who was Lacan’s most constant reference. Éric Laurent, …, explore different dimensions of the religion of numbers which predominate in our climate: digital distrust, evaluation culture, and cognitivism name the different facets of the master-signifier reduced to the number; but not without discourse.
Available here
Reference to Jacques Lacan
Press Conference at the French Cultural Center, Rome (The Triumph of Religion) : 29th October 1974 : Jacques Lacan : See here
Further texts
By Jacques Lacan here
By Éric Laurent here
Contemporary Clinic here
