This wide-ranging collection of essays from major scholars provides an engaging overview, assessment, and critique of the magisterial corpus of Bernard Stiegler. Anyone interested in technology, digital media, climate catastrophe, alienation or the possibility of a radically transformed future will find this collection compelling and necessary.

Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA

This volume gathers the thoughts of Bernard Stiegler through various interpretations, shedding light on many paths leading towards the territory of the extraordinary.

Yuk Hui, Professor of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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 beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where it had been originally received.

Stiegler’s philosophical work encompassed theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, and aesthetics. In its wake, the essays in this volume celebrate and explore the wealth of this multi-dimensional legacy. They examine the conditions of human life in general, its foundational intermittence, and carry forward Stiegler’s post-phenomenological unfolding of the distinctive spatio-temporalities that weave together the epoch we call ‘present’. Engaging closely with Stiegler’s original impetus for the creation of technologies of care, as well as of communities of knowledge and artistic practice,

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Invitation of Memory, Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis & Paul Willemarck

Part I. In Memoriam: Bernard Stiegler
1. Noble Neganthropologist: Remembering Bernard Stiegler (1 April 1952 - 5 August 2020), Pieter Lemmens
2. Stiegler, Melancholy, Negativity (Funeral Song for Bernard), Jean-Luc Nancy
3. Just This, Written just Here and just Now, by just This Individual in just This Mood, Daniel Ross

Part II. Complexities: Caring to Believe
4. Care as Invention, Anaïs Nony
5. Against Simplification: The Intermittence of Life, Gerald Moore
6. Stiegler’s Hand: Tertiary Retentions and the Belief of Reason, Paul Willemarck

Part III. Thinking Différance: Life, Technics, Epochality
7. Negentropy and Différance: Stiegler’s Memories of the Future, Georgios Tsagdis
8. Where There is No World and No Epoch: Bernard Stiegler’s Thinking of the Entropocene, Erich Hörl
9. Différance and Epochality: Stiegler’s Tours, Donovan Stewart

Part IV. Creative Organologies: Works of Invention
10. Philosophy through Acting, Bart Buseyne
11. Taking Care of Digital Technologies, Vincent Puig
12. Plaine Commune, Contributive Learning Territory, Maël Montévil
13. Towards a Bifurcation: Internation and Interscience in the 21st Century, Anne Alombert
14. A Schole for the Thunberg Generation, Victor Chaix
15. Another Social Network is possible!, Harry Halpin & Geert Lovink

Part V. Echoes: Individuating Art
17. Mnemotechnics, Echo, and the Discrete Voice, Mischa Twitchin
18. Bernard Stiegler’s Love of Music, Susanna Lindberg

Part VI. An Unfinished Conversation
19. Ontological Difference, Technological Différance and Semantic Difference: The Problem of a Decentered Reconstruction of Philosophy after ‘Deconstruction’, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy

Notes on Contributors

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A finely structured introduction to the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler and the effects of his legacy on the future of art, work, philosophy, and spirit.
'Timely' in the sense that, following the recent death of Bernard Stiegler, this collection highlights the relevance of his philosophical contributions to contemporary debates on technology

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350410480
Publisert
2025-08-21
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Biografisk notat

Bart Buseyne studied philosophy and applied philosophy at the universities of Leuven, Hull, and Paris I. He translated several essays by Stiegler into Dutch, mostly in collaboration with Judith Wambacq, with whom he also interviewed Stiegler for De Uil van Minerva. He is affiliated to KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium.

Georgios Tsagdis is Lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands and teaches also at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Architectural Association. His essays have been published in various collections and international journals, among which are Parallax (2015), Philosophy Today (2016) and Studia Phaenomenologica (2020).

Paul Willemarck is an independent researcher working in France. He is Co-founder of Junction Phenomenology (rudolfboehm.org) and member of Nootechnics Collective.