The digital revolution does not mean the end of work as such, but the end of the categories of thought that the industrial revolution projected onto human action. The aim of this year's lecture was to free ourselves from the normative categories inherited from the industrial era, to revisit those that preceded it, and to project those that could succeed it, in order to meet the technical and ecological challenges of the present day.
Introduction
Contemporary changes in the world of work have been considered from the point of view ofhomo faber. Coined by Bergson in 1907, this concept reminds us that the symbolic life that characterizes the human species unfolds not only in its words, but also in its works. Every manufactured object, from the first biface to computer databases and space exploration satellites, more or less adequately expresses the mental image behind its creation. It is this image that gives these objects their meaning and intelligibility, and distinguishes them from the universe of things.