Big Brother, really? It is fashionable to discern in the features of the time a disturbing resemblance to Orwellian dystopias but such is not the opinion of Philippe Guibert. The former director of the government's information service, however, knows how precious information is for power. Except that the surveillance society that is being built before our eyes escapes all control of the state apparatus. Worse: the politician is often his first victim. A candidate for mayor of Paris has recently paid the price: when nothing separates privacy from public life more, it is the ambitious who have the most to lose ...
This is the paradox that Guibert analyzes in La Tyrannie de la visibility , a little essay of disconcerting topicality that strikes with the accuracy of his intuitions. The author describes the emergence of a "new democratic cult" , that of the image: to see ... and to be seen. But the servitude is voluntary. Social networks, in particular, do not exercise
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