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              <p>This article reconsiders Paul Otlet’s documentary thought not only as a foundational moment in information science (networks, proto-hypertext, knowledge organization) but also as conceptually adjacent to contemporary transhumanist imaginaries. Drawing on Otlet’s Traité de documentation (1934), Monde, essai d’universalisme (1935), and the broader institutional and architectural projects surrounding the Mundaneum, it highlights an explicit vision of an “augmented” humanity supported by intellectual machinery: documentary devices, recording instruments, and “auxiliary brains” designed to extend perception, memory, coordination, and collective action. The article then examines the heterogeneity of Otlet’s influences—scientific, political, and spiritual—and situates his program alongside notions of collective intelligence such as the noosphere, as well as “world brain” narratives associated with H. G. Wells. Documentation is thus framed as an infrastructure for distributed cognition and international organization. Finally, the paper analyzes Otlet’s notion of hyperdocumentation as an ultimate stage where sense, perception, and document converge, and where a figure of the “hyper-man” (or “fluidic man”) emerges, combining technical externalization of mind with a Promethean horizon of human self-transformation. Overall, Otlet’s documentary utopia is interpreted as a project of cognitive and civilizational enhancement, grounded in a politics of knowledge and an ambition to reshape the world.</p>
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              <p>Cet article propose une relecture des travaux de Paul Otlet en les situant non seulement dans l’histoire des sciences de l’information (réseaux, proto-hypertexte, organisation des connaissances), mais aussi dans une proximité conceptuelle avec certaines logiques transhumanistes contemporaines. À partir du Traité de documentation (1934), de Monde, essai d’universalisme (1935) et d’éléments de contexte (réseaux savants, collaborations institutionnelles et architecturales autour du Mundaneum), il met en évidence une vision d’une humanité “augmentée” par des machineries intellectuelles : dispositifs documentaires, instruments d’enregistrement et “cerveaux auxiliaires” destinés à étendre les capacités de perception, de mémoire, de coordination et d’action. L’article analyse ensuite la pluralité des influences d’Otlet (scientifiques, politiques, spirituelles), ses affinités avec l’idée de noosphère et l’imaginaire du “cerveau mondial” (notamment en résonance avec H. G. Wells), ainsi que la manière dont la documentation est pensée comme infrastructure d’intelligence collective. Il montre enfin que l’hyperdocumentation, conçue comme stade ultime fusionnant sens, perception et document, s’accompagne d’une figure de l’“hyper-homme” (ou homme “fluidique”), articulant extension technique de l’esprit et horizon prométhéen de dépassement des limites humaines. L’ensemble conduit à interpréter l’utopie documentaire otlétienne comme un projet d’augmentation cognitive et civilisationnelle, adossé à une politique du savoir et à une ambition de transformation du monde.</p>
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