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Olivier Rey: "The screens now dispense us from moving around the world"

2021-03-11T19:28:30.558Z


THE FIVE SENSES COVID-19 TESTED (2/5) - For a year now, the coronavirus obsession and life restrictions seem to have made us one-dimensional beings, lost in a monochrome, odorless world, emptied of sensitive at the same time as loved presences. According to...


Polytechnician, Olivier Rey is a researcher at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Sciences and Techniques and teaches philosophy at Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Author of numerous critically acclaimed essays, such as

Quand le monde est fait nombre

(Stock, coll. “Les Essais”, 2016) and

Leurre et malheur du transhumanisme

(Desclée de Brouwer, 2018), he recently published

Gloire et misery of the image after Jesus Christ

(Conference Editions, 2020, 304 p., 25 €).

LE FIGARO.

- You have shown in your work the unbridled proliferation of images in our civilization.

The past year, which we have often spent locked behind our screens, has it not accentuated this movement?

How is the sense of sight affected by the upheavals we have just experienced?

Olivier REY.

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Behind a screen, hearing is sometimes required in addition to sight, but you are right, very often it is sight that predominates.

In terms of screen time, the situation

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Source: lefigaro

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