“A wide canvas like the world”: fable of our time

Nothing is virtual in this world. Similarly, Not even the monster that is called the Internet. Therefore, that in 2000, a day of graying, the Democratic candidate Al Gore boasted of having invented. However, A great innovation, the World Wide Web has changed our relationship to the universe. For example, Aude Lord has chosen to bring us back to earth. Consequently, and even in the abyss, by denouncing the misdeeds of these new communication techniques on our environment. Similarly, A wide canvas as the world has the ambition to awaken consciences by avoiding giving lessons.

It is through the mystery that we enter the adventure: “He is motionless. Meanwhile, slender and tubular, gray or perhaps black, in the dark we do not know very well. It looks like “a wide canvas like world”: what is in our salons. behind our plinths, between the wall and the lamp, between the socket and that of the computer: a vulgar cable. Let’s call it. »» It is the connection system that connects continents, allows the operation of the Internet. Even the clove sharks-incredible but true, this creature exists! – Break their teeth against him. But the human being always finds a parade.

Reappropriation of the world – "a wide canvas like world":

Pénélope. June, birgit, read pan and a few others, whose often sad daily we have followed, tested by a feeling of loneliness, including in the comfortable setting of a most design international hotel, wanted to end the web. They were neither revolutionaries nor vandals. “In reality. none of them wanted the total destruction of the Internet, explains Aude Lord, But they worked by individual motivation and by provocation, for pleasure to thwart the rules and by unsustainability of the world. “a wide canvas like world”: »» The result of their action is obviously the disappearance of the economy. social relationships, as we have known them for twenty-five years. But it is still the reappropriation, by humanity, of its bright intended. Nothing is virtual in this world. Not even imagination.

Aude Lord, A wide canvas like the worldZoé Poche, 2025, 272 p., € 10.