The secret self
The self remains a secret for many, if not all of us. Some of the greatest writers have tried to discover their self, to explore who they are. We will …
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the secret
For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, transparency and truth are goals to be achieved. As he writes in Book IV of the Confessions: “I wish I could in some way make my soul …
The secret: essential for living well?
Without secrecy, no relationship is possible. You can think of secrecy as a hidden, dark place. But in the opposite direction, if there were no secret, everything would be pure. …
Facial recognition
This experiment conducted by the New York Times is quite revealing about the power of surveillance cameras. From public data (photos published on the companies’ websites), and using facial recognition …
Secret and digital: Quantum computing and encryption
A Moore’s law (popularized as such but not really related to Moore’s observations) says that every 18 months a breakthrough occurs in technologies. For example, that a characteristic is twice …
Secret and Digital: The September 2018 Facebook Hack
You will have more information on this computer attack of which was victim Facebook on the site of CNN, for example. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/04/tech/facebook-hack-explainer/index.html Why is this interesting for the Sciences Po …
