Guillaume Pitron

Guillaume Pitron is a French journalist and filmmaker. He is also the author of two essays, published in France by Les Liens qui Libèrent (LLL) and translated in some fifteen countries: La Guerre des métaux rares (2018) and Digital Hell. Journey to the end of a Like (2021). Des énergies vertes aux technologies numériques en passant par l’agriculture connectée et les frontières dites « intelligentes », Guillaume Pitron se positionne aux avant-postes des révolutions techniques en interrogeant les enjeux économiques, géopolitiques et environnementaux qu’elles charrient.

His residency project focuses on the “blue economy”, a term popularized by the European Union to evoke the fabulous development potential of the oceans. The blue economy carries with it a dream of sustainable exploitation of the seas, where the pursuit of profit goes hand in hand with the harmonious sharing of resources. Questions remain, however: which states will own the tools to explore the “last frontier”? And which companies will make the most of exploiting the seas? Could the “blue economy” give rise to new inequalities, more glaring than those already seen on land?