The Technological Empowerment Index
Where the Fresco traces the thinking, the TEI matrix puts it to the test: assessing a concrete technology across eight axes of power, scored 0–5. The same thesis, made operational.
Discover the TEI →Teaching tool — open access
The Fresco of Technique.
An interactive journey through the thought of Technique: six eras, twenty-four thinkers, from Plato to Yuk Hui. Each entry reads in three moves — idea, contribution, limit.
Reading power relations across the long run.
The Fresco unfolds the guiding thesis of my Power & Technique course: a technology is a system that transforms energy in order to create or modify power relations. It sets that thesis against the history of ideas, and makes filiations visible: how the Greek split between idea and hand is passed on, contested, then replayed in the industrial age and the digital era. The interface is in French.
- Browse
- The ribbon timeline gives access to the six eras. Each era shows its thinkers as cards.
- Go deeper
- On click, a detailed entry opens: key idea, contribution, limit, and “what this opens” — the thread to the next thinker.
- Search
- A field filters entries by name, idea, contribution or cultural area, across all eras.