Date/Time
Tuesday
2 Dec 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Library of French Thought, Dwinelle 4229
Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event
Armen Khatchatourov
Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Dicen Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France
This talk will raise the question of transition from one form of governmentality to another. Building up on a Foucauldian framework of historical change, we will try to understand if the point of abrupt evolution (or, conversely, perpetuation) exists. Although the present-day version of neoliberalism and AI technologies seem closely linked, a more nuanced investigation would ask if new forms of governmentality are emerging, or the old are still remaining, and how the rise of AI is entangled in these processes.
We will examine the intertwining between the normative concepts and AI technologies, in order to develop of a heuristic and terminological apparatus for this investigation. By doing so, can we disentangle the many ways AI technologies are influencing contemporary normativity and the many ways normative concepts are at play in the diversity of AI technologies?
Armen Khatchatourov is Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France. With a dual background in engineering and philosophy of technology, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities, privacy, smart cities, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He published Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley, 2019) and directed Corps Connectés. Figures, fragments, discours (Presses des Mines, 2022); he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Etudes Digitales.
