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Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism

Crogan, Patrick

Authors

Patrick Crogan Patrick.Crogan@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Digital Cultures



Abstract

This essay introduced the special issue of Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010) on Bernard Stiegler. It characterises the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler’s philosophy of technology and assesses its relevance for critical explorations between culture and the political. The focus is on Stiegler’s major philosophical series, Technics and Time, and how he articulates therein his contribution to the philosophical consideration of technics in relation to key influences such as Gilbert Simondon, André Leroi-Gourhan, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Immanuel Kant. It then examines the activist dimension of Stiegler’s later writing projects in the context of his work at the Pompidou Centre’s Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation of which he is the founding director, and with Ars Industrialis, the association he co-founded to promote a renewed public sphere engagement with key questions of contemporary technocultural becoming. A review of the critical reception of Stiegler’s work in Anglophone contexts ensues.

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2010
Deposit Date Jul 6, 2010
Publicly Available Date Nov 15, 2016
Journal Cultural Politics: An International Journal
Print ISSN 1743-2197
Electronic ISSN 1751-7435
Publisher Duke University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 6
Issue 2
Pages 133-156
Keywords Stiegler, philosophy of technology, mnemotechnics,
activism, psycho-power
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/977413
Publisher URL http://www.dukeupress.edu/culturalpolitics
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Additional Information Additional Information : This is a pre-press version of Ferry, Emma (2009) Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900). In: Sparke, Penny and Massey, Anne and Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today. Berg, Oxford, pp. 13-29. The available print version can be viewed at http://www.Bergpublishers.com
Contract Date Nov 15, 2016