Nicolas Truong (NT): This concept of the Double Click is very interesting because it consists in saying, through an image that all those who use a computer have, which consists precisely in passing the mediation, in skipping a point.
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Bruno Latour (BL): The Double Click is the modern-day Satan, so to speak. It's the idea that you can do without mediation. It's true in religion when you are a fundamentalist. It's true in politics when you are a militant and not an activist. It's true in science when you have the idea that science is done regardless of where you are. You put on a white coat, you do science. There is a kind of fundamental struggle within Double Click which is now becoming, partly because of social networks but also because of digital technology, the ideal of all communication, that is to say, a flow without transformation which passes "I think that" – there is no transformation necessary, "I have an opinion and I stick to it" for the politician. And that comes to destroy or hack away at all the modes in succession. Because when a scientist arrives at a Double Click, he is accused of lying. That's what's been happening all the time with the COVID-19 stuff. Why is that? Because he says, "Wait, I need time. I need statistics. I need instruments. I can't rush to give facts". The slowness of producing facts, the amount of information needed to get it, is enormous. In all the modes that arrive in front of the Double Click, they are all liars. What is happening at the moment in our current, somewhat painful times, is the general accusation of lying. That's basically what's behind fake news. It's not that people have suddenly gone mad, it's that the notion of mediation has disappeared. When a politician has to say, "Are you being transparent? Are you carrying my opinion, my pain, without mediation?", it is deceptive because the unfortunate elected person will be obliged to say, "No. It will have to be transformed". Then there's another committee. Then the whole circle has to come back and it has to go through again. There is a kind of general collapse of mediation that makes all the modes we need to live deceptive. And the crisis of civilisation in which we find ourselves is a "Double-Click attack" on all the modes that allow us to survive.
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Für Bruno Latour ist das Bilden von Kollektiven Teil unseres Lebens. Doch eine Vielzahl von Menschen zusammenzubringen, damit sie mit einer Stimme sprechen, bedeute Verrat und Metamorphose. Auf dem Weg von der persönlichen Meinung bis zu einer von anderen ausgesprochenen Anweisung werde es Transformationen geben. Das müssten wir akzeptieren. Es sei die Voraussetzung, um tatsächlich Politik zu machen und kollektiv zu handeln. arte 
Der französische Philosoph Bruno Latour hat ein Dutzend grundlegender Werke geschrieben, die mit den renommiertesten Preisen ausgezeichnet wurden. Im Laufe seiner Karriere hat Latour lange Interviews gemieden. Ende Oktober 2021 bat er Nicolas Truong, Journalist bei der Tageszeitung Le Monde, mit ihm seine 50-jährige Forschungsarbeit Revue passieren zu lassen. Er verstarb am 09. Oktober 2022. arte , page
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What is denoted by the abbreviation [DC] for Double Click is not a mode but a conceptual character which serves, in some ways, as a foil to the inquiry and which assumes the possibility of information without transformation. modesofexistence
- 1 - It is a great injustice, obviously, to use the term "Double Click", from the world of computing, to characterize a displacement without transformation since the very success of this action supposes a breathtaking alignment of lines of code by hundreds of anonymous programmers. But this injustice is taken on board in the sense that [DC] is ignorant of that which bore it!
- 2 - It is less a mode than an anti-mode since it is defined by the negation of transformations, the translations needed for the completion of all courses of action. In the hands of Double Click, translations are merely displacements. The metaphor is that of a computer mouse which has taught us to expect all the information we might require to be available at the click of a button without taking into account the dizzying series of mediations required by this operation. Via a historical paradox, this idea of access without transformation took possession of the activity least apt to illustrate it, namely mathematical demonstration and laboratory experiments, in order to imagine, based on that demonstration, pure and perfect information that might serve as a template for judging the imperfection of all other modes.
- 3 - The history of Double Click is that of an intoxication by formalism stemming from the unexpected discovery of mathematics which should, on the contrary, have given us the idea of chains of reference but which gave, after being captured politically by philosophy, the opposite idea of a transportation without transformation.
- 4 - Along with the [REF] and [PRE] modes, but for entirely different reasons, Double Click is one of the conditions that make this investigation possible. It belongs therefore to the fifth group.