Talks

2026

• AI infrastructures & sovereignty: An analysis of hyperscale data center projects in France (FR) (with Marie Garin and Francesca Musiani), “Sovereignty in the digital age: recompositions and perspectives in a fragmented world”, 18^th congress of the French Political Science Association (AFSP), Lyon (July 1, 2026) ↗

• From Blackshirts to ICE: On the History of Political Surveillance Along the Fascism-Liberalism Boundary, 11^th biennal of the Surveillance Studies Network, Lille (June 12, 2026) ↗

• Big Tech, AI and the Military: Shifting Public-Private Configurations, table ronde “(Big) tech as intelligence power: marketisation, capitalism and resistance”, 11^th biennal of the Surveillance Studies Network, Lille (June 10, 2026) ↗

• The Trap of Digital Sovereignty, roundtable organized by the Swiss chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC), series “What Digital Sovereignty Means for Civil Society”, Zurich (March 27, 2026) ↗

• Digital Technology, the End of Illusions? Anatomy of a Utopia (FR), roundtable organized by the journal Terrestres, Académie du Climat, Paris (March 11, 2026) ↗

• Computing Power: AI as a Political Technology, seminar of the “Political Technologies” research cluster, University College Cork, Ireland (February 10, 2026) ↗

• AI and police violence, from ICE to the French police (FR), reading circle of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (Obvia), Laval University, Quebec (February 6, 2026) ↗

• Hacking the Technopolice! Confronting the drift toward techno-security (FR), HACKTONOMY study day, Annecy Alpes School of Art (February 5, 2026) ↗

• Technopolice in (Il)liberal Regimes: Towards “Permanent, Exhaustive, Omnipresent Surveillance”? (FR), seminar “Concentrationary Universes. Spaces, Devices and Experiences of Control and Confinement”, EHESS Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers (January 5, 2026) ↗

2025

• In the era of techno-fascism, is digital activism at an impasse? (FR), study day “Research on digital commons: Assessment and perspectives”, working group “Politics of digital commons” of the GDR “Internet, AI and Society”, Université Paris-8, Saint-Denis (December 15, 2025) ↗

• Police illusio and techno-security solutionism (FR), seminar of the research group “Work of order, police and repressive organizations”, Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po Paris (December 5, 2025) ↗

• Intelligence and digital surveillance in the Trump II era (FR), roundtable at the conference of the Observatoire des Libertés et du numérique “State of emergency – 10 years later”, Maison des avocats, Paris (June 6, 2025) ↗

• The Digital Turn: Raison d’État Challenged by Data Flows (FR), conference “Reasoning about Raison d’État, Where Does Europe Stand?”, Les Printemps du Droit (3rd edition), Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Paris (27 May 2025) ↗

• The political and legal implications of Algorithmic video surveillance for police work, e-Policing conference “AI-based Crime Investigation: A Game Changer to Privacy”, faculté de droit, gestion et sciences politiques de Strasbourg (May 15, 2025) ↗

• Technopolice: Cities under police surveillance (FR), meetings #idéesdébats organized by the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes, Lieu unique (April 22, 2025) ↗

• Telling the history of the Internet differently (FR), presentation-discussion around the issue of the journal Esprit “AI at the frontiers of the mind”, Friends of the Esprit journal, Marseille (April 9, 2025) ↗

• Rethinking scientific research in the 21st century (FR), roundtable of the OpenEdition Lab, La Friche-Belle de Mai, Marseille (April 3, 2025) ↗

• Presentation of the book Technopolice (FR), seminar “Platforms and digital participation”, MSH Paris Nord (March 14, 2025) ↗

• The practical limits of algorithmic transparency: the case of France, Conference “Algorithmic transparency and the digital rule of law”, Sciences Po Paris Law School (March 12, 2025) ↗

• Technopolice in Marseille: feedback on action research (FR), study day “Counter-intelligence. Surveillance, wiretapping and investigations”, École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (February 25, 2025) ↗

• More science, less violence? On the myth of a police made more liberal by technology (FR), interdisciplinary conference “Surveillance in democracy. What assessments? What perspectives?”, Observatoire de la surveillance, université de Bordeaux (February 6–7, 2025) ↗

• Artificial Intelligence, a triple accumulation (data, capital, resources) (FR), seminar of the Cercle universitaire d’étude marxistes, Sorbonne-Université (January 27, 2025)

• Presentation of the book Technopolice (FR), research seminar of the Sciences Po Paris Law School (January 27, 2025)

2024

• Presentation of the book Technopolice (FR), seminar Hypertextes #23 of the CIS-CNRS (online) (November 18, 2024) ↗

• The black holes of intelligence techniques oversight (FR), intervention at the international conference “The challenges of intelligence services oversight: a dialogue of overseers?”, Commission nationale de contrôle des techniques de renseignement (CNCTR) and the journal Études française de renseignement et de cyber, Paris (October 15, 2024) ↗

• The Artificial Intelligence regulation as an example of a security mutation of liberal law (FR), conference “Artificial intelligence and legal professionals: the necessities of acculturation”, Faculté de droit Campus de Toulon (October 14, 2024) ↗

• From the City-Fortress to the Safe City: A Foucauldian Genealogy of Urban Policing, conference “Smart cities as safe cities – Theoretical, political, and legal perspectives”, Centre d’étude sur les technologies de surveillance, Université Catholique de Lille (October 10–11, 2024) ↗

• Ethical Regulatory Sandboxes of AI in the Public Interest, closed research workshop to draw up recommendations on AI regulation for the G20 summit, ITS Rio (July 19, 2024) ↗

• Containing the harms of AI? A critique of the EU AI Act, ITS Law School: Research Connections, Rio de Janeiro (July 17, 2024)

• Urban surveillance in the age of algorithms (FR), roundtable as part of the doctoral seminar “The toolbox” – “situated knowledge to tinker with architecture and the city”, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Marseille (June 10, 2024)

• The Artificial Intelligence paradigm, an acceleration of bureaucratic and capitalist domination? (FR), conference “Critique of Artificial Intelligence: philosophical, political and cultural issues of digital automation”, Université Paris-8 (May 27–28, 2024) ↗

• The automation of politics and law by computing (FR), seminar “accumulations and accelerations: computer totalitarianism”, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’Homme, Paris (March 19, 2024) ↗

• From Myth-Making to Quiet Dereliction: An Overview of Predictive Policing in France (with Edlira Nano), CUPP Conference “Reconfiguring Urban Public Places: Technologies, Data, Design, and Governance”, session “Constructing Social and Structural Inequalities through Predictive Policing”, IT University of Copenhagen (January 30, 2024) ↗

• Technopolice: A research-action initiative to counter new technologies of police surveillance, Academia-Civil society panel, CUPP Conference “Reconfiguring Urban Public Places: Technologies, Data, Design, and Governance”, IT University of Copenhagen (January 30, 2024) ↗

2023

• Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Bias, and Politics, participation in a roundtable of the AI2S2 conference (Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Science, and Society), Université de Genève (September 11, 2023) ↗

2022

• “Democratic System Failure”: Reflections on the recompositions of authoritarian liberalism in the digital regime (FR), Panel “Digital participation in authoritarian context”, 2022 Congress of the GIS Democracy and Participation “Democracy in dark times: authoritarianisms, participations, experimentations”, MSH Paris-Nord, Saint-Denis (November 25, 2022) ↗

• “Power of digital platforms, territories and sovereignty (FR), discussion around the text of Dominique Boullier as part of a workshop organized by the Laboratoire de Cyberjustice, Université de Montréal (October 3, 2022)

• Digital surveillance after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Possible Futures for Europe, keynote lecture at the CIVICA Summer School 2022 “Reconstructing Europe after Crises”, Villa Vigoni, Italy (July 11–15, 2022)

• Debating the “concerns” raised by artificial intelligence (FR), participatory research workshop of the Shaping AI project organized by the Médialab de Sciences Po at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris (June 14–15, 2022)

• US Intelligence Agencies v. The New Left: Expansion, Denunciation, Re-Legitimization of State Surveillance (1960-1975), Panel “Intelligence & National Security”, 9^th biennal of the Surveillance Studies Network, Rotterdam (June 2, 2022)

• Control and circumvention online: how to escape the dialectic? (FR), participation in the concluding roundtable of the ResisTIC conference “Critiques and circumventions of controls and surveillance on the internet”, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers (April 1, 2022) ↗

• What tools for a free University and research? (FR), panel at a conference dedicated to the launch of an association for the defense of freedom in university and research, CERI Sciences Po (March 17, 2022) ↗

• Struggles around Intelligence Oversight and Clashing Meanings of Democracy: The Case of Whistleblower Protection, GUARDINT conference “Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations”, King’s College London (online) (January 26, 2022) ↗

2021

• Issues of automated video surveillance (FR), fall seminar “The image tested by machines – Reconfigurations of the visible”, Le Bal, Paris (October 25, 2021) ↗

• Digital surveillance out of control? Reflections on democracy and the uses of law facing socio-technical risks (FR), online seminar “The contribution of social sciences in the regulation of technological artifacts”, Laboratoire de Cyberjustice, Université de Montréal (October 5, 2021) ↗

• The routinization of controversies around digital surveillance: chance or necessity? (FR), back-to-school seminar of the Centre Internet et Société of CNRS (October 1, 2021)

• Can State Surveillance Be Contained? Towards a Sociogenesis of Intelligence Oversight in the United States, 14^th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, “The politics of intelligence” (online) (September 13, 2021) ↗

• Tools and design for a participatory-action research framework around surveillance technology, online workshop “Datafication technologies, counter-power and resistance at the EU Borders”, Security Flows ERC Project, King’s College London (July 7, 2021) ↗

• Doing Action-Research on Algorithmic Urban Policing: IA-Powered Surveillance, Elusive Democratic Oversight, 8^th European Workshops in International Studies (online) (June 30, 2021)

• Discussion around “open source” journalistic investigations from videos posted on social networks (FR), seminar “After Social Networks” (Fondation de France, ArTeC) (online) (May 25, 2021) ↗

• Repressing hackers, securing the infrastructure of control societies? (FR), online seminar Transnum, session “digital disobedience”, Médialab de Sciences Po (online) (April 23, 2021) ↗

• The automation of state bureaucracies: towards an algorithmic “iron cage”? (FR), “Digital State”, international online conference organized by the Centre de droit public comparé of Université Paris 2 and the Centre de Technologie et Société of the École de Droit of the Fondation Getulio Vargas (March 22, 2021) ↗

• The automation of the State’s gaze: images and surveillance in the era of “artificial intelligence” (FR), online seminar “Photography and surveillance” of the ARIP (association de recherche sur l’image photographique) (February 25, 2021) ↗

2020

• Power, media, democracy: a brief history of censorship regimes (FR), online seminar “Censorship and individual freedoms” of the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS), EHESS (December 17, 2020) ↗

• The Janus Face of Censorship and the Rise of “Networked Liberal-Authoritarianism”, “New ‘Digital Services Act in Perspective’” seminar series (online), Centre on Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) in collaboration with the chair “Fundamental Rights and the Digital Transformation”, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (December 3, 2020) ↗

• Socio-political perspectives on digital technology and artificial intelligence (FR), international conference of Cerisy on the “blind spots of digital technology” (September 23–29, 2020) ↗

• Secrecy, Knowledge and Social Change: Practical tips for engaged “adversarial action-research”, seminar “Questioning secrecy. Transdisciplinary approach and methods” led by Benoît Pelopidas and Didier Bigo, École doctorale de Sciences Po and CERI (June 10, 2020) ↗

• Presentation of L’Utopie déchue (FR), seminar “Autre regard”, École des Mines de Saint Étienne (February 7, 2020) ↗

2019

• Utopias, resistances, concrete and theoretical practices facing digital technology (FR), seminar of the Triangle laboratory “Epistemological and political issues of digital writing”, ENS Lyon (December 3, 2019) ↗

• Governing the digital public space in (il)liberal regime: new public-private alliances (FR), seminar “Critique and circumvention of digital borders”, EHESS Paris (November 22, 2019) ↗

• The Reason of State, Surveillance & Radical Democracy, seminar GUARDINT “Conceptualising Oversight in the Context of State Surveillance”, CERI Sciences Po, Paris (November 12, 2019) ↗

• When the State co-opts the GAFAMs: New public-private assemblages in the era of algorithmic governmentality (FR), “International issues of digital activities: between territorial logic of States and power of private actors”, conference of the Institut de recherche en droit européen, international et comparé and the Centre d’Excellence Jean Monnet Europe-Capitole, Université de Toulouse-Capitole (October 11, 2019) ↗

• Facing the automation of bureaucracies, accommodation or refusal? (FR), workshop “black-box algorithms” – state of play and reaction to massive exposure to algorithmic decisions, INRIA-INSA, Lyon (October 10, 2019) ↗

• Data-Fuelled In/Securities in the “Safe City”: How Big-Data Policing Is Spreading Across France, Data Power Conference, Bremen University, Germany (September 13, 2019) ↗

• Commons-washing, information technologies and online platforms. The semantic appropriation of the commons (with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay and Panayotis Antoniadis), 27^th Biennial Conference of the International Association on the Study of the Commons (IASC), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (July 5, 2019) ↗

• Resisting control societies, subverting dominant computing: a typology of hacker illegalisms (FR), 15^th Congress of the Association française de sciences politiques, thematic section 59 “Politics of hacking. Investigation into digital tricks”, IEP de Bordeaux (July 2, 2019) ↗

• Analysing and reconstructing the Internet and Web of the 1990s: A round table (with Valérie Schafer, Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan, Geert Lovink, Michael Stevenson and Patrick Pétin), RESAW19 Conference: “The Web That Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections”, Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials, Université d’Amsterdam (June 19, 2019) ↗

• Reclaiming Urban Digital Networks: Toward an Alternative to the Corporate “Smart City” (with Ileana Apostol and Panayotis Antoniadis), international conference “The limits of smart city growth: spaces and energies of digital infrastructures”, École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires de Marne-La-Vallée (June 6, 2019) ↗

• Researchers under surveillance: the stakes of research data protection (FR), study day Tracés “What data for what research?”, EHESS Paris (February 8, 2019) ↗

2018

• Privatization, automation: towards a new censorship regime (FR), conference “Regulating freedom of expression in the name of public debate”, Institut de Recherche Philosophiques de Lyon (IRPhiL), Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin (November 30, 2018) ↗

• Cryptography and public freedoms (FR), roundtable during the session “Sciences, Legitimacies and Mediations” of the 20 years of the “History of sciences” seminar at the mathematics department of Université Paris 8 (October 2, 2018) ↗

• Challenging France’s Intelligence Act before the Courts, workshop “Interrogating the Right to Privacy and the Limits of Surveillance”, co-organized by Queen Mary University London and Sciences Po Paris, Paris (September 26, 2018) ↗

• (Re)configuration of Public-Private Assemblages in Internet Surveillance, UTIC final conference, “SIGINT Intelligence Transnational Activities in France and Europe: Transnationalisation, Oversight and the Role of Courts”, Sciences Po (September 25, 2018) ↗

• Policy and regulation of Community Networks at the EU level, netCommons public workshop “The new EU telecommunications code in Greece and its effect on community networks”, Impact Hub, Athens (July 9, 2018) ↗

• “Are you being processed?”: Computerization of society, countercultural disillusionment (FR), 2nd Congress of the Société pour l’histoire des médias “Media, utopias and experimentations”, Paris (May 24, 2018) ↗

2017

• From Internet Access Provision to Digital Rights Advocacy: The History of the French Data Network (with Dominique Trudel), International Conference “Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives”, Université de Lugano, Switzerland (December 14–15, 2017) ↗

• Alternative Internet Networks: History and Legacy of a “Crazy Idea” (“Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award 2017”, section “Communication Policy & Technology” of the International Association for Media and Communication Research), IAMCR 2017, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (July 20, 2017) ↗

• Mapping post-Snowden controversies: theoretical intuitions and perspectives (FR), research seminar of the Médialab Sciences Po, Paris (April 4, 2017)

2016

• Gaps and Bumps in the History of Digital Rights Contention, History Not Found: Challenges in Internet History and Memory Studies, AoIR 2016 pre-conference workshop, Berlin (October 5, 2016) ↗

• Enduring Illegality & the Snowden Paradox: About an Overlooked Provision of the 2015 French Intelligence Act, conference “Digital surveillance and cyber spying: French-German perspective”, Maison de la recherche, Université Paris 1 (September 23, 2016) ↗

• Mapping the controversies about surveillance in the digital space, seminar “Professionals: Trajectories, fields dynamics, symbolic capital”, CERI Sciences Po (September 14, 2016) ↗

• Supporting Community Networks Through Law and Policy, workshop on community networking infrastructures, Barcelona (June 17, 2016) ↗

• From Deep State Illegality to Law of the Land: The Case of Internet Surveillance in France, ^th biennal of the Surveillance Studies Network, Barcelona (April 22, 2016) ↗

2015

• Don’t be evil? Collaboration and resistance to surveillance among private actors in the digital economy (FR), conference “Surveillance After Snowden: Rethinking the impact of Surveillance”, CERI Sciences Po (November 3, 2015) ↗

2014

• Fundamental rights facing Big Brother: a strategy doomed to failure? (FR), study day of the seminar “Big Data and production of digital knowledge” by Bernard Harcourt, EHESS/Columbia University, Paris (December 16, 2014) ↗

• Internet Decentralization as Civil Disobedience, workshop “The alternative Internet(s): state of the art and the possible future”, London School of Economics, London (September 16, 2014) ↗

• Insurgent Citizenship Online & the Struggle Over Free Speech in “Established” Democracies, 20^th New Faces Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Istanbul (March 2, 2014) ↗

2013

• Casuistry of insurgent citizenship on the Internet (FR), casuistry seminar of the Centre d’Étude des normes juridiques Yan Thomas, EHESS (December 3, 2013) ↗

• Insurgent Citizenship on the Internet: Pushing Back the Limits of the Public Sphere, workshop on non-compliance with norms and disobedience to law, International Congress of the research committee on sociology of law, International Sociological Association, Toulouse (September 4, 2013)

• Insurgent citizenship on the Internet facing representative democracy (FR), 2013 conference of the research network “Electronic Democracy”, Paris (June 19, 2013) ↗

• Reforming the Law for Confidence in the Digital Economy to protect freedom of expression (FR), conference of the Institut du Droit de l’Espace et des Télécommunications, Université Paris-Sud (May 17, 2013) ↗

2012

• Remarks on the conventionality of Internet filtering (FR), international conference on cybercrime, Université de Montpellier (April 5, 2012)

• Network neutrality as a condition of freedom of communication (FR), conference at Université de Poitiers (January 27, 2012)