Digital Identity: The Khaby Lame Case and the AI Act
In recent years, the boundary between physical presence and digital presence has become increasingly blurred. The recent financial operation involving Khaby Lame fits squarely within this context. The former factory…
Friedrich Nietzsche Was Not a Transhumanist
Friedrich Nietzsche remains perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of modernity. After the ideological manipulations of the last century, today Transhumanism claims to recognise in the Übermensch its own spiritual forebear.…
Beyond the Cave of Bits: The Revolution of Analogue AI
In the famous 1999 film The Matrix, humanity has been subjugated by Artificial Intelligences and lives within an interactive neural simulation. Yet the protagonist, Neo, much like in Plato’s Allegory…
The Chosen, or the trap of inevitable duty
This book is not merely a story of friendship. It is a clinical dissection of inherited burden, intellectual isolation and the corrosive cost of unexamined duty within an ultra-traditional framework.…
Will Digital Minds Replace Us? Geoffrey Hinton Thinks So
During a remarkable conference in Oxford, Professor Geoffrey Hinton – known as the “Godfather of Deep Learning” – didn’t mince his words: digital intelligence may soon outpace us and catch…
The Thinking Machine: I and AI
“Ego cogito, ergo sum, sive existo”. “I think, therefore I am, or rather, I exist”. With these words, René Descartes drew a boundary between being and illusion. To think was…
The Great Blackout
Today, the Iberian Peninsula was hit by a large-scale blackout that affected several regions of Spain and Portugal, highlighting the fragility of the European electricity system. The failure began around…
Ireland’s Protests Show Strength for the EU, Despite Challenges
Ireland Faces Its Challenges, But Stands By Its Values Today, around 7,000 people gathered in Dublin city centre as tensions over immigration spilled onto O’Connell Street. On one side, an…
Corsica 1755: The Startup
Pasquale Paoli launches a visionary political project: a representative government, an elected assembly, public education. A beta version of modern democracy. A glitch in the system of the Ancien Régime.…
The Paradox of AI: From the Automation of Humans to the Anthropomorphization of Machines
For centuries, we’ve asked humans to become machines. Now, we’re asking machines to become human. This is the paradox of artificial intelligence: after pushing people toward extreme specialization, today we’re…
Freeing Freedom
In recent years, the international political landscape has seen developments that call for serious reflection. Both in the United States and Russia, we’ve witnessed a growing concentration of power in…
From a distant galaxy, a warning for the present
Can a science fiction saga reveal the crisis of our democracies? In 2002, 25 years after the release of the first film, George Lucas returned to the Star Wars universe…
The Lexicon of Power: Newspeak
Some words disappear quietly. Not because people stop using them, but because they are replaced, softened, and stripped of their impact. This happens everywhere: in politics, in the economy, and…
The International Day of Zero Waste 2025, again on the environmental impact of fast fashion
Fast fashion refers to the rapid production of inexpensive clothing designed to reflect the latest fashion trends. Clothes are designed, manufactured and brought to market at an incredibly fast pace.…
The two faces of ignorance
Every day, inevitably, we confront the limits of our knowledge. Ignorance, in itself, simply means “not knowing.” What turns it into “the mother of all evils,” to quote Plato, is…
Divided and Vulnerable: Europe’s Radical Right and Sovereignists
In recent years, the temptation to embrace sovereignism and defend the national identity of individual European states has become a powerful proposition. But what identity do we truly want? That…
Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity to Understand
A new creation: but who is the creator? Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a revolutionary technology; it is a reflection of our choices, values, and vision for the future.…
A story we must stop telling
There is a story that has been repeating itself for centuries, each time dressed in new words and new faces, a narrative that the masses have always found easy to…
