Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the same time both an accessible summation of that work and a continuation of it, The 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, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism and the resulting destruction of the consumer's savoir-vivre. Reflecting the collective work of his activist organisation, Ars Industrialis, Stiegler here sets forth an alternative path to that of 'industrial populism', one that appeals to the force of the human spirit. The Re-Enchantment of the World also includes the manifesto of Ars Industrialis and an account of the organisation's 2005 summit in Tunis.
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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, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism.
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Introduction: What is to be done? Manifesto of ... Ars Industrialis Part I: Refounding Society 1. The Industrial Age as Service Capitalism 2. The Consumer Discharged of his Existence 3. Hyperindustrial Service Societies as the Destruction of Individuation by Controlling Adoption Procedures 4. Re-Enchanting the World in the Face of the Unhappy Destiny of Consumption 5. 'R' Technologies and the New Apparatuses of Spirit 6. Overcoming the Capitalism of Drives and Fighting Against its Becoming-Barbaric 7. Startled, We Begin Again Differently (!) / The Sudden Surge: a Nw Beginning 8. Grammatization and Individuation - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 9. The Revolution of Capitalism 10. A European Way of Life 11. The Plan that Enchants Me Part II: Investing in the Augmentation of the Value of the 'Human Spirit' Against the Reign of Ignorance 12. From the Informatization of Society to "Information Society" 13. From the "Information Society" to the "Society of Knowledge" - or, On the Possibility of the Re-Enchantment of the World 14. Companies, Public Power, and Industrial Populism 15. Changing the Industrial Paradigm 16. Information Society, Disenchantment, De-Motivation and Control of Knowledge 17. The Re-Instrumentation of Knowledge, the Future of Hyperindustrial Society 18. Knowledge and Information 19. Knowledge and Memory, or Reign of Ignorance? 20. The Risk of Disindividuation as the Growth of Ignorance Rather Than Knowledge 21. Cognitive Saturation and Knowledge Management 22. Instruments of Knowledge and the Criteria of Selection That They Produce 23. Being and Becoming in Technoscience 24. The Crisis of Education 25. Practical Consequences Motion adopted by Ars Industrial on the eve of the Tunis summit Bibliography Index
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Expounding and developing the work of his think tank and pressure group, Ars Industrialis, this book offers a close-up of Stiegler's philosophy in its engagement with our contemporary world. Exposing the toxic short-termism of our runaway economics, Stiegler offers us an alternative: the repurposing of technologies of control and consumption towards an economy of contribution. His analyses ring profoundly true, and his urgency is unparalleled: this is a project we cannot afford to ignore.
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Iinfluential French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler lays out his thinking on capitalism, technology and culture and his Ars Industrialis organisation.
Includes the manifesto of Stiegler's Ars Industrialis organisation and an account of their 2005 summit.
The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory series examines the encounter between contemporary Continental philosophy and aesthetic and cultural theory. Each book in the series explores an exciting new direction in philosophical aesthetics or cultural theory, identifying the most important and pressing issues in Continental philosophy today.
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ISBN
9781441103468
Publisert
2014-08-28
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Bloomsbury Academic USA
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308 gr
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216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
136

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Biographical note

Bernard Stiegler is Director of the Institute of Research and Development at the Georges Pompidou Center, France and Associated Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the author of a prolific and growing body of work, including the three volume Technics and Time. Trevor Arthur is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.