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.
Both Laurent’s & Miller’s texts available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /éric laurent or authors by date
Subtitles to Laurent’s text
The Society of Digital Distrust
Freedom and Security
Calculation [le chiffre] to Calm Anxiety
Should we trust the Public Authorities?
How Can We Trust Those Who Gather Our Data?
Can We Stop Machines That, Like the Unconscious, Never Stop Ciphering [chiffrer]
The Act and the Limits of Faith in Knowledge – Symptomatic Protests
The Object or Master Signifier
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
Note : If links to any required text do not work, check www.LacanianWorksExchange.net. If a particular text or book remains absent, contact Julia Evans.
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Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, London
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Further texts
Of the clinic here
Lacanian Transmission here
Some Lacanian History here
Topology here
From LW working groups here
By Éric Laurent here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
By Julia Evans here
