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No, it’s not a video game.

Geopolitics

Watching the staggering news coming out of the US every day (and there will surely be more between the time I finish writing this and the time it’s published), it’s hard to find a logic, to decipher a strategy. I…

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Submersion or integration

Geopolitics

Endless discussions about the number of migrants to be admitted occupy the media in all countries: some say that more are needed to fill jobs that are vacant due to a lack of skills or the refusal of nationals to…

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Who will be the master, Trump or Musk and company?

Geopolitics

Too often, when we observe a phenomenon, we forget to ask ourselves two essential questions: Is it new? Does it exist elsewhere? And yet, comparisons in time and space make an enormous contribution to forward-looking analysis. For example, we can’t…

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After AI: simulation

Society

During the sixth decade of the 20th century, a dazzling intellectual and political movement, the Situationist International, developed the idea that modern society was no more than a spectacle given to humans. In one of the movement’s landmark books, “The…

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Who needs us?

Geopolitics

There’s one question everyone should always ask themselves: who needs me? Anyone who answers “Nobody” is in great danger. Because, in the end, we are only defended, supported and protected by those who, for rational or emotional reasons, have an…

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2025: Order and noise

Geopolitics

According to a fundamental theory of physics, the theory of information, noise becomes information when it makes sense in a frame of reference. When it doesn’t make sense, it interferes with the circulation of information, and can destroy the frame…

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Oedipus, AI and Mayotte: the same question

Society

A very famous British comedian and actor, Ricky Gervais, recently asked his audience, “If a visitor came to see you from 2045, and you were allowed to ask them just one question, what would it be?” The answers were very…

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The new enemy of markets: woke capitalism

Society

Some people would like to believe that the direction of history is irreversible, and that battles for the environment and for fair treatment at work for women and people from diverse backgrounds will win out everywhere. They like to think…

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