Annie Le Brun and Juri Armanda: a dictatorship that does not say its name
By Mohammed Aïssaoui
In
This Will Kill That
, a high-end essay, Annie Le Brun and Juri Armanda decipher the underground influence of social networks that enter our privacy.
They analyze the contemporary cult of the image as well as the mechanism of algorithms that select content for us according to one principle: we love what looks like us.
Annie Le Brun comes from surrealism and is particularly interested in her books in the link between the intimate and the social.
Juri Armanda, after studying philosophy and art history, specialized in the visual arts.
They go far in their thinking, evoke a
"dictatorship of visibility"
where the value of a person is a function of the number of his subscribers,
"views"
,
"followers"
.
“The image-money equivalence has become commonplace,” they say.
LE FIGARO.
- According to you, we are not aware that the race for visibility on the internet is a dictatorship.
Why are we so blind?
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