NousSommes represents a moment when social media became embroiled in collective expressions of unity, solidarity and resistance. This book explores the role of the digital in the collective today, drawing on the work of important French philosophers like Nancy, Derrida and Deleuze and addressing issues such as ecology, automation and addiction.

The relation between the digital and the collective has become an urgent contemporary question. These collected essays explore the implications of this relation, around the theme of #NousSommes. This hashtag marks the point where the «personal» modalities of social media have become embroiled in collective expressions of unity, solidarity and resistance. As this volume demonstrates, the impact of this cannot be isolated to the internet, but affect philosophy, literature, cinema, politics and the public space itself. The contributors approach the issue of #NousSommes from a diverse range of disciplines and methodologies, bringing out both the continuity and discontinuity with other forms of collective expression. Important contemporary philosophers such as Nancy, Derrida and Deleuze are engaged here, as are issues of ecology, community, automation, postcolonial identity and addiction. Featuring eight academic essays and an interview, this volume testifies to the importance of French philosophy and culture in understanding the digital and the collective today.

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Susie Cronin completed her PhD in French at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Her research focused on the evolution of assisted and online literatures in the French context from the 1960s to the present day. She is a former invited researcher of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She has previously published on Italo Calvino and French digital literatures. Her most recent research engages particularly with the works of Serge Bouchardon, Annie Abrahams, Xavier Malbreil and Jean Pierre Balpe. Sofia Ropek Hewson completed her PhD in French at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Her research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and focused on the work of Paul B. Preciado. She has published on Preciado, the work of Catherine Malabou, pornography, drag and queer theory. Her most recent work focuses on the history of contraception. Cillian Ó Fathaigh is a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on contemporary French philosophy, political philosophy and phenomenology. He has been an invited student at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and he is an elected scholar of St John s College, Cambridge and of Trinity College Dublin. His PhD offers the first comprehensive account of Jacques Derridäs philosophy of institutions.

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CONTENTS: Susie Cronin/Sofia Ropek Hewson/Cillian Ó Fathaigh: Introducing #NousSommes - Patricia MacCormack: 'Who is this we that is not me?': Ecosophical Ethics - Solange Manche: #WeAreTheEarth: Rethinking Ecology and Community: The Case of Humanist Anarchism - Boubé Yacouba Salifou: Je suis Charlie: entre émotion et identité sociopolitique - Alexandre Leskanich: 'The metamorphosis of the world into man': The Anthropocene and the Historical Administration of Human Identity - Jack Coopey: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as the #NousSommes of Social Media - Marie Chabbert: Liberté, égalité ... Totalité? Décrypter les dangers de #JeSuis avec Jean-Luc Nancy - Benoît Le Bouteiller: Un nous contemporain: réseaux sociaux, discours nouveau et addiction - Marianne Godard: La communauté comme passage: l'éthique du poème d'Henri Meschonnic - Andrea Perunovic: #NousSommes: refondation onto-axiologique de la confiance - #NousSommes and Automatic Politics: An Interview with Martin Crowley