As part of the #idéesdébats series organized in partnership with Le Lieu Unique and Nantes University, Félix Tréguer and Florent Castagnino will share their reflections in the Habiter, vraiment? 2024-2025 cycle.
Drones, predictive policing, algorithmic surveillance—under the guise of optimization and decision-making assistance, these technologies are reshaping urban life into a vast surveillance enterprise. A macroscopic surveillance first, aimed at tightly managing population flows in real time. A closer surveillance of individuals and groups as well.
What does the proliferation of these technologies change in our relationship with the city, in the ways we move, meet, and dwell within it? And how can we resist?
6pm
Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
Free access, no reservation required
French without interpretation
Félix Tréguer is an associate researcher at the CNRS Center for Internet and Society and a member of La Quadrature du Net, a collective dedicated to defending human rights in the face of digitalization. He is also the author of Technopolice: Police Surveillance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Divergences, 2024).
Florent Castagnino holds a PhD in sociology and is a lecturer at IMT Atlantique. His research focuses on surveillance, urban security, and the use of artificial intelligence in policing systems. He coordinates the IAAP project funded by the ANR and was a visiting researcher in Canada in 2023 and 2024.
