
Chair of Digital Cultures, Laval University, Canada
Berlin Prize Fellow - Class of Fall 2000
Milad Douehi is the Chair of Digital Cultures at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. Prior her served as the Directeur d’Études Associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His first book, A Peverse History of the Human Heart, was praised by the Washington Times as “a fascinating history of the human heart as food, from the mythical Titans’ cannibalization of Dionysus to the Christian Eucharist and Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart.” The book was published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish. His subsequent books are Pour un humanisme numérique (Seuil, 2011), La grande conversion numérique, suivie de Rêveries d’un promeneur numérique (Seuil, 2011 [2008]), and Solitude de l’incomparable (Seuil, 2009).