Publications

Current book project

Cyber-Intimacies: Emotional Harms, Sexual Liberation and Education in the Digital Age

  • This hybrid project aims to explore the paradoxes and evolution of sexual desires and emotional bonds within our digital era. It evaluates the need to reconsider what sexual liberation should entail, and advocates for comprehensive sexual education that would incorporate reflections on the impact of technological practices on our intimate relationships.
  • My investigations combine:
    • a trade book (beyond academic audiences),
    • a podcast series featuring personal narratives for broader exposure, engagement and inclusivity,
    • related art exhibitions.
  • In what ways our ability to connect, love, and experience sexual flourishing has morphed with technological advances?
  • How can we address the stereotypes and inequalities they perpetuate in shaping sexual fantasies and emotional needs?
  • Situated at the crossroads of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and the ethics of new technologies, this interdisciplinary research is designed to be accessible to a wider audience, extending beyond academia. )

Current research interests

  • I aim to describe and analyze how AI can durably affect users’ willpower – and to reflect on measures that could be implemented within both educational strategies and AI itself to control this impact on the users’ cognitive abilities and behavior. I have been exploring the connections between psychology, neuroscience and new technologies, and the ways that deep learning might be shifting notions of personal responsibility and autonomy. While assessing AI’s impact on the way that users experience their own willpower, I emphasize the need for transparency and human control over advanced AI systems (in which moral decision making should be implemented in ways that have yet to be aggressively investigated). I also aim to better understand the forms of "liberated" agency permitted, for instance, by algorithmic recommendation systems.

Books

  • «Sentiment d’injustice et chanson populaire» ("The Feeling of Injustice and Popular Music") Editions Delatour, France, October 2017 (co-authored with Charles Ramond, Professor at Paris 8 University)

    L'état du monde offre tant d'occasions de s'indigner... Comment douter du "sentiment d'injustice"? Le présent ouvrage invite pourtant à un tel réexamen. Puisque les chansons populaires sont les mots et les voix des passions ordinaires, un sentiment aussi universel que le " sentiment d'injustice " devrait y apparaître sans cesse. Or l'enquête ici présentée montre le contraire : le " sentiment d'injustice " est entièrement absent des chansons populaires, qu'il s'agisse des chansons anciennes et traditionnelles, des chansons de l'amour malheureux et des disgrâces, du rap sous toutes ses formes, mais aussi des chansons engagées, contestataires, voire révolutionnaires. Ce fait très étonnant est considéré ici comme indice et point de départ possible pour une théorie de la justice qui ferait l'économie des " sentiments moraux ".

  • La force des habitudes: Anthropologie philosophique de la notion de sclérose : Genèse, emprise, liberation (novembre 2018, Essai, Broché)

    L'habitude qui fait naître la routine fige le sujet jusqu'à lui ôter toute possibilité de jouir de son hypothétique libre-arbitre. Nous façonnons nos habitudes, puis nos habitudes nous façonnent ; la liberté cède la place - sans forcément qu'il y ait conscience de ce sournois glissement - à l'asservissement. D'instrument idéal pour l'apprentissage, l'habitude se fait appauvrissement et fixation, obstacle par excellence au mouvement de la vie. L'habitude peut certes affiner les sens, mais ces sens orientent leur acuité dans une direction très spécifique, cependant que la multiplicité des impressions plus communes passe inaperçue. L'acte familier ne renvoie plus ici à la concentration appliquée, mais à un mouvement automatique qui se dérobe à la conscience, jusqu'à scléroser l'individu. Dans quelle mesure et de quelle manière le processus de fixation des habitudes constitue-t-il une donnée structurante fondamentale du devenir individuel et de la société ? A quelles conditions peut-on espérer sortir de l'immobilisme intellectuel, social, culturel auquel peuvent mener les habitudes ?

  • “L’habitude chez Montaigne”, ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Romain Bondonneau, Sédiments : les grands cahiers Périgord patrimoines. Montaigne et nous, Les éditions du ruisseau, 2019

  • “Ribot's Novel Approach to Character Pathology: From Normal Indecisiveness to the Madness of Doubt”: Contribution about the History of European Psychology for a book project on Philosophical Issues in Personality Disorders, Edited by Konrad Banicki & Peter Zachar - Accepted

    • Articles

    • “Attention and Free Will in Experimental Psychology: An Unexpected Analysis of Voluntary Action by William James and Theodule Ribot”, Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, September 2022
    • “A Remedy for FOMO", Noema Magazine, April 2022
    • “Le cas Amiel à la lumière de la psychologie expérimentale” (“The Amiel Case in the light of Experimental Psychology”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2019
    • "L’irrésolution et l’Aboulie chez Théodule Ribot” (“Irresolution and Aboulia in Theodule Ribot’s works”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2018
    • “Women and their Uteri: Symbolic Vessels for Prejudiced Expectations”, co-authored with Paola Nicolas, bioethicist. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), March 2022

      • What is a uterus? This question seems quite disconcerting. Do we not know the anatomy and the functions of this female organ already? This article calls for a holistic reevaluation of the way we perceive and what we expect from women’s uteri. We explore the powerful and deeply rooted cultural representations of women’s uteri as mere receptacles, containers or vessels, and the impact of such representations on our biological categories, medical practices and current policies. While looking at controversies surrounding hysterectomies, Cesarean sections, and uterus transplants, we aim to shed light on ambivalent narratives, alternatively promoting an essentialist approach where the uterus is emblematic of womanhood, or implying that the uterus is a dispensable organ, that is useless outside of reproduction.
    • “La Passion Morbide : Une approche physiologique de l’addiction chez Théodule Ribot” (“Morbid Passion : A Physiological Approach of Addiction in Théodule Ribot’s works”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2016
    Manuscripts / Upcoming Publications
    • Spring 2025: Ribot's Novel Approach to Character Pathology: From Normal Indecisiveness to the Madness of Doubt. Cambridge University Press, Contribution to: Novel Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder, Edited by Konrad Banicki & Peter Zachar.
    • “Transgender Concerns within the Prison Walls” (in collaboration with Barry Zack, expert and international consultant in the field of correctional (prison, jail and other detention settings) and community health.
    • “From Pathological to Normal: Mental Disease in Théodule Ribot’s work” – to be submitted to The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
    • Sexual Desire and Taboos: a Feminist Perspective (ThinkOlio; Interview; Podcast)
    • “FOMO and Free Will Anxieties: a Bergsonian Remedy”