Stiegler and Technics

by Howells, Christina; Moore, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780748677023
• ISBN10: 074867702X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-10-30
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Bernard Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is "invented" through technics rather than a product of purely biological evolution. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, "libidinal economy", technoscience and aesthetics.

Contributors include

Stephen Barker, University of California Irvine and translator of Steigler

Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris and translator of Stiegler

Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick

Marc Crépon, École normale supérieure and co-founder of Stiegler's think tank, Ars Industrialis

Daniel Ross, co-director of The Ister, the award-winning film on Heidegger, and translator of Stiegler

Hugh J. Silverman, Stony Brook University.

Author Biography

Christina Howells is Professor of French at the Wadham College, Oxford University.

Gerald Moore is Lecturer in French at the Durham University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations & Guide to Referencing
Introduction: Philosophy - The Repression of Technics, Christina Howells & Gerald Moore

I: Anthropology - The Invention of the Human

1. Adapt and Smile or Die! Stiegler Among the Darwinists, Gerald Moore
2. The Prehistory of Technology: On the contribution of Leroi-Gourhan, Christopher Johnson
3. Of a Mythical Philosophical Anthropology: The Transcendental and the Empirical in Technics and Time, Michael Lewis
4. Technics and Cerebrality, Ian James

II: Aesthetics - The Industrialisation of the Symbolic

5. Technics, or the Fading Away of Aesthetics: The Sensible and the Question of Kant, Serge Trottein
6. Experience of the Industrial Temporal Object, Patrick Crogan
7. The Artist and the Amateur, from Misery to Invention, Martin Crowley

III: Psychoanalysis - The (De)sublimation of Desire

8. "Le Défaut d'origine": the prosthetic constitution of love and desire, Christina Howells
9. The Technical Object of Psychoanalysis, Tania Espinoza
10. Desublimation in Education for Democracy, Oliver Davis

IV: Politics - The Consumption of Spirit

11. The New Critique of Political Economy, Miguel de Beistegui
12. Stiegler and Foucault: The Politics of Care and Self-Writing, Sophie Fuggle
13. Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler, Richard Beardsworth
14. Memories of Inauthenticity: Stiegler and the Lost Spirit of Capitalism, Ben Roberts

V: Pharmacology - The Poison that is also a Cure

15. Pharmacology and Critique after Deconstruction, Daniel Ross
16. Techno-pharmaco-genealogy, Stephen Barker

Notes on contributors
Bibliography