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Wired Earphones: Elegance and Rebellious Attachment
Wired earphones are making a big comeback. More than just a fashion statement, they represent a clear sign of resistance to ever-present connectivity.
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Laurent François
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The Quiet Memory of the Photos We Keep on Our Phones
The vast majority of photos will never be shared online. Blurry, mundane, too intimate: they sleep in our phones, a quiet memory of a life that resists…
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Laurent François
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Aura Farming: Cultivating Your Algorithmic Presence
When online presence becomes a resource to optimize, being visible is no longer enough – you have to know how to cultivate your aura.
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Laurent François
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.zip Identities: Miniaturization vs. Compression of Our Digital Selves
Social media bios, which seem designed to miniaturize our identities, have quietly become the stage for a grand act of subversion.
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Laurent François

May 2025

Phantom Vibration Syndrome: When the Body Feels More Than the Mind
The notification doesn’t come, but the body believes it.
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Laurent François
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Saving the Invisible
What if our most impactful digital emotions were precisely the ones we can no longer retrieve?
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Laurent François
Hotel ChatGPT
AI is reinventing our intimacies, like exquisite corpses written on hotel notepads.
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Laurent François
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Feed or Dream? The Algorithmic Reverie
The feed scrolls like a dream: fragments, blurry faces, familiar sounds. Nothing makes sense — and yet, everything resonates. The theory of montage by…
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Laurent François

April 2025

Draft Mode on Social Media
We live in draft mode now: always starting, rarely finishing, suspended between intention and action. Are we doomed to live saved in draft?
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Laurent François
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How Do We Cry Online?
Between vulnerability and performance, the way we cry on social media reveals something about the spirit of our time.
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Laurent François
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The Art of Commenting on Social Media
A comment is far more than a quiet extension of a post — it reveals the nature of a community and its values. It has become media within media.
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Laurent François
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Aliveness in Azeroth
The story of Mats Steen, a prolific World of Warcraft player known as Ibelin, who passed away in 2014 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, opens up new…
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Laurent François
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