★Ollivier Dyens's new work to be released in 2026 is an important voice in Canada's "science-humanities" public discourse. Ollivier Dyens is both a body archaeologist of the technological age and a cyborg poet, and his works provide the most forward-looking narrative model for understanding post-human emotions in the interweaving of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and climate anxiety.
★An essay for all those who want to understand more clearly "what historical turning point we are at". At this moment, our stories, creativity, and subjectivity are being completely overturned by an inhuman yet intelligent force that can penetrate, transform, and redefine us.

When entities without bodies, memories, the ability to mourn, or fear of death can express the inexpressible, write heart-wrenching poems, and think more deeply than humans, what does it mean to be human? When the vast algorithmic torrent that constitutes artificial intelligence breaches the last line of defense we consider "humanity" and exposes its fragility, what are we exactly? This book draws on philosophy, neuroscience and cognitive science, literature and aesthetics to question the brutal intrusion of this "radical other": an intangible intelligence that is seeping into our mental structures, replacing the socialization process, and thus shaking the very foundation of the entire human edifice. The author argues that artificial intelligence is not so much a technology as an "ontological displacement machine", stripping away some of humanity's oldest illusions - about human uniqueness, the sovereignty of thought, and the sanctity of creation.

Ollivier Dyens

Professor of French Literature, Translation and Creation at McGill University, founder of the innovation laboratory "Building 21", former member of the Canadian Higher Education Commission and the University Education and Research Committee, and current member of the Quebec Higher Education Council. His works include: "Fear and Reverence", "Inhuman Situations", "Metal and Flesh", etc.