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Bernard Stiegler
The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx’s project in the very different…
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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to…
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This issue brings together three lectures on aesthetics delivered by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler in Los Angeles in 2011 with articles by scholars of Stiegler’s work. Aesthetics, understood as…
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Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Stiegler's thought which reached…
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In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valery wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination…
This is the second volume of research into the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler and its interconnections with the philosophy of education. This book was originally published as a special issue…
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This book is the first of its kind to critically examine the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler from the perspective of the philosophy of education.
What I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and…
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A collection of philosophical and aesthetic essays, influenced by Bernard Stiegler, which focuses on the techno-cultural artefact in order to critique, engage, or respond to, an aspect of digital culture…
The book presents a powerful reminder of adults’ responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction…
The Neganthropocene is a collection of recent lectures by the leading French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler.
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Stiegler argues that the proletarian must be reconceptualized as the economic agent whose knowledge and memory are confiscated by machines. This title offers an introduction to Stiegler’s work and represents…
Explores four legends who have endured from ancient eras to modern times namely Shangri-La, the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and the Holy Grail. This title is a series…
* Stiegler is one of the most original and important philosophers and cultural theorists in France today. * His work is at the interface of philosophy and technology, so would…
* Stiegler is one of the most original and important philosophers and cultural theorists in France today. His work is at the interface of philosophy and technology, so it will…
Stiegler is one of the most original and important philosophers and cultural theorists in France today. His work is at the interface of philosophy and technology, so it will appeal…
Max Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinctive set of attitudes - including the pursuit of profit…
In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.
In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms…
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of…
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Ross Abbinnett (University of Birmingham, UK)
This book provides a comprehensive account of the work of Bernard Stiegler, focusing on his thought on hyperindustrial societies and the development of technological systems through which the social, economic…
Contributeurs: Julien Bellanger, Philippe Beraud, Annie Blandin, Armel Campagne, Fabien Colombo, Franck Cormerais, Gerard Dubey, Fabrice Flipo, Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Michal Krzykawski, Gerald Moore, Jason W. Moore, Jean-Max Noyer, Maxime Ouellet…
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Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.
In this series of lectures, Bernard Stiegler rethinks the so-called Anthropocene in relation to philosophy’s failure to reckon with the manifold and cosmic consequences of the entropic and thermodynamic revolution.
Re-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct an utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive…
Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the…
Technics and Time 2: Disorientation continues Stiegler’s interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when speed and delay are irreconcilable, the crisis of human…
Technics and Time, 3 furthers Stiegler’s critique of technics, working (back) through Kant in order to examine the nature of cinematic time relative to phenomenology and hypertechnology.
This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted in December 2002 at France Culture with Elie During, is the best introduction to Stiegler’s Time and Technics series. This collection…
In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of…
