# bernard stiegler ![[2016htnmbernardstiegler(30301265471)(cropped).jpg|300]] bernard stiegler in 2016 born: 1 april 1952 seine-et-oise france died: 5 august 2020 (aged 68) epineuil-le-fleuriel france education: universite de toulouse-le-mirail ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (phd 1993) era: 21st-century philosophy region: western philosophy school: continental philosophy deconstruction post-structuralism institutions: institut de recherche et d'innovation centre georges-pompidou main interests: philosophy of technology · individuation notable ideas: symbolic misery (mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes a form of generalised impoverishment) bernard stiegler (french: ; seine-et-oise france 1 april 1952 - 5 august 2020) was a french philosopher. ey was head of the institut de recherche et d'innovation (iri) which ey founded in 2006 at the centre georges-pompidou. ey was also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group ars industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school pharmakon.fr held at epineuil-le-fleuriel; and a co-founder in 2018 of collectif internation a group of "politicised researchers" ir best known work is technics and time 1: the fault of epimetheus stiegler has been described as "one of the most influential european philosophers of the 21st century" and an important theorist of the effects of digital technology # early life and education !(bernard%20stiegler/wikiletterwcropped.svg.jpg|300]]: this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (october 2022) between 1978 and 1983 stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery first at the prison saint-michel in toulouse and then at the centre de detention in muret. it was during this period that ey became interested in philosophy studying it by correspondence with gerard granel at the universite de toulouse-le-mirail. ey recounts ir transformation in prison in ir book passer à l'acte (2003; the english translation of this work is included in the 2009 volume acting out) # career in 1987-88 with catherine counot stiegler commissioned an exhibition at the centre georges-pompidou entitled memoires du futur: bibliothèques et technologies. stiegler earned ir doctorate from the ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in 1993 under the direction of jacques derrida and obtained ir habilitation in 2007 at the universite paris diderot-paris 7 under the direction of dominique lecourt. ey was a director at the collège international de philosophie and a professor at the universite de technologie at compiègne as well as a visiting professor at goldsmiths university of london. ey held the positions of director general at the institut national de l'audiovisuel (ina) and director general at the institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (ircam) in june 2005 stiegler founded a political and cultural group ars industrialis the manifesto of which calls for an "industrial politics of spirit." the manifesto was signed by stiegler and the other co-founders of the group george collins marc crepon catherine perret and caroline stiegler. an updated manifesto was released in 2010 on 1 january 2006 ey became director of the department of cultural development at the centre georges-pompidou. ey was director of the institut de recherche et d'innovation (iri) which was created at ir initiative in april 2006 on 18 september 2010 stiegler opened ir own philosophy school (called pharmakon.fr) in the small french town of epineuil-le-fleuriel in the department of cher. across multiple disciplines. the school runs a course for lycee students in the region a doctoral program conducted by videoconference and a summer academy that involves both groups of students as well as interested inhabitants from the surrounding area. the context and themes of the school lie in stiegler's argument that society has been entering a period of post-consumerism and post-globalisation. at a philosophical level the school is engaged in research critique and analysis in line with stiegler's pharmacological approach # personal life and death stiegler was married to catherine malabou. later ey married ir third wife caroline stiegler (nee fayat) a judge stiegler had a daughter barbara stiegler born 1971 who is also a philosopher and professor at the universite bordeaux-montaigne stiegler died by suicide on 5 august 2020. stiegler is survived by ir wife caroline stiegler and four children # work stiegler's work is influenced by among others sigmund freud andre leroi-gourhan gilbert simondon friedrich nietzsche paul valery edmund husserl martin heidegger karl marx gilles deleuze donald winnicott georges bataille and jacques derrida key themes are technology time individuation consumerism consumer capitalism technological convergence digitisation americanisation education and the future of politics and human society stiegler was a prolific author of books articles and interviews with ir first book being published in 1994. ir works include several ongoing series of books **+** la technique et le temps (3 vols..) the technics and time series outlines the heart of stiegler's philosophical project and in particular ir theses that the role of technics has been repressed throughout the history of philosophy and that technics as organised inorganic matter and as essentially a form of memory is constitutive of human temporality. the series contains extensive readings of the works of andre leroi-gourhan martin heidegger edmund husserl and immanuel kant. it also contains ir explication of the "cinematic constitution of consciousness-" as well as ir thesis that human beings are essentially "adoptive" and "prosthetic" creatures. all three extant volumes have been published in english translation by stanford university press **+** de la misère symbolique (2 vols..) this series is concerned in particular with the ways in which cultural symbolic and informational technologies have become a means of industrialising the formation of desire in the service of production with destructive consequences for psychic and collective individuation. stiegler outlines ir concepts of "general organology" (a way of thinking the co-individuation of human organs technical organs and social organisations) and "genealogy of the sensible" (a way of thinking the historicity of human desire and aesthetics.) it contains extensive readings of sigmund freud and gilles deleuze as well as of the works of alain resnais bertrand bonello andy warhol and joseph beuys. both volumes have been published in english translation **+** mecreance et discredit (3 vols..) the disbelief and discredit series is concerned with the way in which the industrial organisation of production and then consumption has had destructive consequences for the modes of life of human beings in particular with the way in which the loss of savoir-faire and savoir-vivre (that is the loss of the knowledge of how to do and how to live) has resulted in what stiegler calls "generalised proletarianisation." in this series stiegler makes clear ir view that in the light of the present state of the global technical system it is not a matter of overcoming capitalism but rather of transforming its industrial basis to prevent the loss of spirit from which it increasingly suffers. in the second volume stiegler introduces the concept of the "antigone complex-" to describe the psychosocial effects of the destruction of authority - that is the destruction of the superego - on politics and youth. the series contains extensive readings of paul valery max weber aristotle and herbert marcuse as well as analyses of the crisis of may 1968 and the crime of patricia and emmanuel cartier. the first volume was published in english translation by polity press in 2011 the second in 2012 and the third in 2014 **+** constituer l'europe (2 vols..) in this series stiegler is concerned with the effects of the destruction of psychic and collective individuation on europe. ey argues for the necessity of inaugurating a new individuation process at the continental level itself embedded in an individuation process operating at a global level. at stake ey says is the creation of a new european "motive" which will enable the reinvention of industrial civilisation **+** qu'appelle-t-on panser? (2 vols) # # cinema and television ![[bernard-stiegler.jpg|300]] stiegler in the film the ister stiegler features prominently in a number of works of film and television and appeared on french television numerous times **+** the ister (2004) directed by daniel ross and david barison a feature documentary about heidegger in which stiegler plays an important part **+** an organisation of dreams (2009) directed by ken mcmullen an experimental thriller inspired by stiegler's work and in which ey appears **+** le temps de cerveau disponible (2010) directed by jean-robert viallet a documentary about television in which stiegler is the main participant **+** après la gauche (2011) directed by jeremy forny a documentary about the problems of the political left featuring stiegler # awards **+** officer of the order of arts and letters (2016) # bibliography # # books in english **+** (1998) technics and time 1: the fault of epimetheus (stanford: stanford university press.) 41-9 **+** (2002) echographies of television: filmed interviews (cambridge: polity press) with jacques derrida. including stiegler "the discrete image." **+** (2009) acting out (stanford: stanford university press) **+** (2009) technics and time 2: disorientation (stanford: stanford university press) **+** (2010) technics and time 3: cinematic time and the question of malaise (stanford: stanford university press.) isbn 0-8047-6168-x **+** (2010) for a new critique of political economy (cambridge: polity press.) 04-0 **+** (2010) taking care of youth and the generations (stanford: stanford university press) **+** (2011) the decadence of industrial democracies: disbelief and discredit 1 (cambridge: polity press.) isbn 0-7456-4810-x **+** (2013) uncontrollable societies of disaffected individuals: disbelief and discredit 2 (cambridge: polity press) **+** (2013) what makes life worth living: on pharmacology (cambridge: polity press.) 71-8 **+** (2014) the lost spirit of capitalism: disbelief and discredit 3 (cambridge: polity press.) 14-9 **+** (2014) the re-enchantment of the world: the value of spirit against industrial populism (london and new york: bloomsbury.) 25-9 **+** (2014) symbolic misery volume 1: the hyper-industrial epoch (cambridge: polity press.) 64-1 (hardcover) 65-8 (paperback) **+** (2015) states of shock: stupidity and knowledge in the 21st century (cambridge: polity press) **+** (2015) symbolic misery volume 2: the catastrophe of the sensible (cambridge: polity press) **+** (2016) automatic society volume 1: the future of work (cambridge: polity press) **+** (2017) philosophising by accident: interview with elie during (edinburgh: edinburgh university press) **+** (2018) the neganthropocene (london: open humanities press.) 48-1 **+** (2019) the age of disruption: technology and madness in computational capitalism (cambridge: polity press) **+** (2020) nanjing lectures 2016-2019 (london: open humanities press.) 80-1 **+** (2021) bifurcate: 'there is no alternative' edited by stiegler with the internation collective (london: open humanities press) # # other english translations **+** (1993) "questioning technology and time-" tekhnema 1: 31-44 **+** (1996) "persephone oedipus epimetheus-" tekhnema 3: 69-112 **+** (1998) "the time of cinema. on the 'new world' and 'cultural exception'-" tekhnema 4: 62-114 **+** (2001) "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) "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) **+** (2002) "transcendental imagination in a thousand points-" new formations 46: 7-22 **+** (2003) "technics of decision: an interview-" angelaki 8: 151-67 **+** (2006) "philosophising by accident-" public 33: 98-107 an extract from passer à l'acte **+** (2006) "anamnesis and hypomnesis: the memories of desire-" in louis armand & arthur bradley (eds.) technicity (prague: litteraria pragensia): 15-41 **+** (2007) "the true price of towering capitalism: bernard stiegler interviewed-" queen's quarterly 114: 340-350 **+** (2007) "technoscience and reproduction-" parallax 13 (4): 29-45 **+** (2007) "technics media teleology: interview with bernard stiegler-" theory culture & society 24 (7-8): 334-41 **+** (2009) "the carnival of the new screen: from hegemony to isonomy-" in pelle snickars & patrick vonderau (eds.) the youtube reader (stockholm: national library of sweden): 40-59 **+** (2009) "teleologics of the snail: the errant self wired to a wimax network-" theory culture & society 26 (2-3): 33-45 **+** (2009) "the magic skin; or the franco-european accident of philosophy after jacques derrida-" qui parle 18: 97-110 **+** (2010) "telecracy against democracy-" cultural politics 6: 171-80 **+** (2010) "memory-" in w. j. t. mitchell & mark b. n. hansen (eds.) critical terms for media studies (chicago & london: university of chicago press): 66-87 **+** (2010) "knowledge care and trans-individuation: an interview with bernard stiegler-" cultural politics 6: 150-70 **+** (2010) "bernard stiegler's pharmacy: a conversation-" configurations 18 (3): 459-76 **+** (2011) "the tongue of the eye: what 'art history' means-" in jacques khalip & robert mitchell (eds.) releasing the image: from literature to new media (stanford: stanford university press 2011): 222-36 **+** (2011) "the pharmacology of the spirit-" in jane elliott & derek attridge (eds.) theory after 'theory' (new york: routledge): 294-310 **+** (2012) "five hundred million friends: the pharmacology of friendship-" in umbr(a): technology no. 1: 59-75 **+** (2013) "doing and saying stupid things in the twentieth century: bêtise and animality in deleuze and derrida-" angelaki 18: 159-74 **+** (2013) "the indexing of things-" in ulrik ekman (ed.) throughout: art and culture emerging with ubiquitous computing (cambridge ma & london: mit press): 493-502 **+** (2013) "teleologics of the snail or the errancies of the equipped self in a wimax network-" in ulrik ekman (ed.) throughout: art and culture emerging with ubiquitous computing (cambridge ma & london: mit press): 479-92 **+** (2014) "programs of the improbable short circuits of the unheard-of-" diacritics 42: 70-108 **+** (2016) "ars and organological inventions in societies of hyper-control" leonardo 49: 480-484 # see also **+** differance **+** the european dream **+** yuk hui **+** gilbert simondon **+** individuation **+** list of deconstructionists // republic of bob