Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler in the film The Ister, 2004.

Bernard Stiegler (born April 1, 1952) is a French philosopher.

Influences and themes

Stiegler's work is influenced by, among others, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Valéry, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida.

Key themes are technology, time, individuation, consumerism, consumer capitalism, technological convergence, digitization, Americanization, and the future of politics and human society.

Incarceration

Between 1978 and 1983 he was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Saint-Michel prison in Toulouse, and then at the Muret detention centre. It was during this period that he became interested in philosophy. His transformation in prison is recounted in his book, Passer à l’acte (2003).

Career

Stiegler defended his thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1992. He has been a Director at the Collège international de philosophie, and Professor at the Université de Compiègne. He has held the positions of Director General at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), and Director General at IRCAM. On January 1, 2006 he commenced as Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou.

Politics

Stiegler has founded a political group, Ars Industrialis, the manifesto of which calls for an "industrial politics of spirit."

Cinema

Stiegler features prominently in the film The Ister (2004).

Bibliography

Books in French

Published

• La technique et le temps. Tome 1: La faute d’Epiméthée (1994). ISBN 2718604409
• La technique et le temps. Tome 2: La désorientation (1996). ISBN 2718604689
• Échographies de la télévision. Entretiens filmés (with Jacques Derrida, 1996). ISBN 2718604808
• La technique et le temps. Tome 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être (2001). ISBN 2718605634
• Passer à l'acte (2003). ISBN 2718606169
• Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer: Du 11 septembre au 21 avril (2003). ISBN 2718606290
• De la misère symbolique: Tome 1. L'époque hyperindustrielle (2004). ISBN 2718606355
• De la misère symbolique: Tome 2. La Catastrophè du sensible (2004). ISBN 2718606347
• Philosopher par accident: Entretiens avec Elie During (2004). ISBN 2718606487
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 1, La décadence des démocraties industrielles (2004). ISBN 2718606606
• Constituer l'Europe: Tome 1. Dans un monde sans vergogne (2005). ISBN 2718606894
• Constituer l'Europe: Tome 2. Le motif européen (2005). ISBN 2718606908
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 2. Les sociétés incontrolables d'individus désaffectés (2006). ISBN 2718607068
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 3. L'esprit perdu du capitalisme (2006). ISBN 2718607157
• Des pieds et des mains (2006). ISBN 2227475668
• La télécratie contre la Démocratie (2006). ISBN 2082105695
• Réenchanter le monde : La valeur esprit contre le populisme industriel (2006, with Marc Crépon, George Collins, and Catherine Perret). ISBN 2082105857

Forthcoming

• La société de l'information: Vers la guerre des esprits.
• Produire, consommer, souffrir : Manifeste pour un nouvel âge industriel.
• L'avenir du désir.

Online texts

• The Disaffected Individual
• Take Care
• Desire and Knowledge: The Dead Seize the Living
• Nanomutations, Hypomnemata and Grammatisation
• Spirit, Capitalism and Superego
• Constitution and Individuation
• Our Ailing Educational Institutions

Other translations

• "Questioning Technology and Time," Tekhnema 1: 31–44 (1993).
• "Persephone, Oedipus, Epimetheus," Tekhnema 3: 69-112 (1996).
• "The Time of Cinema. On the 'New World' and 'Cultural Exception'," Tekhnema 4 (1998).
• Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998). ISBN 0804730413
• "Derrida and Technology: Fidelity at the Limits of Deconstruction and the Prosthesis of Faith", in Tom Cohen (ed.), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). ISBN 0521625633
• "New Industrial Temporal Objects", in Rae Earnshaw, Richard Guedj, Andries van Dam, & John Vince (eds.), Frontiers of Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments (London: Springer-Verlag, 2001). ISBN 1852332387
• Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002), with Jacques Derrida. Including Stiegler, "The Discrete Image". ISBN 0745620361
• "Transcendental Imagination in a Thousand Points", New Formations 46: 7–22 (2002).
• "Technics of Decision: An Interview", Angelaki 8: 151–67 (2003).
• "Philosophising By Accident," Public 33 (2006), an extract from Passer à l'acte.

Secondary literature

• Patrick Crogan, Essential Viewing: Review of Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3.

See also

• consumer capitalism
• consumerism
• deconstruction
• deconstruction-and-religion
• The European Dream
• individuation
• list of deconstructionists
• Martin Heidegger
• technology

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