Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler (2004)

Bernard Stiegler (born April 1, 1952 in Sarcelles ; † August 6, 2020 in Épineuil-le-Fleuriel ) was a French philosopher and publicist .

Life

Stiegler was head of the “cultural development” department (Institut de recherche et d'innovation, IRI) at the Center Georges Pompidou . Before that, he was scientific director at the Collège international de philosophie (International College of Philosophy), professor and head of the research group "Knowledge, Organizations and Technical Systems" (COSTECH) at the Technical University of Compiègne (UTC), which he founded in 1993, and second managing director of the INA (National Audiovisual Institute) and was director of the IRCAM (Institute for Acoustics and Music Research) until the end of 2005 . He regularly held the Ars Industrialis Conferences at the Théâtre National de la Colline , which deal with the influence of new technologies and media on politics, culture and society.

In 2003, Bernard Stiegler announced in his book Passer à l'acte (German: Zum Akt ) that he was incarcerated from 1978 to 1983 for armed robbery in the Saint-Michel prison in Toulouse and in the Muret prison.

The impact of new media on society

The media theorist Stiegler appeared repeatedly as a critic of modern television. In his book The Logic of Worry , for example, he took the position that television captures the attention of its viewers and pushes them into an under-age consumer position that destroys social structures. For example, he viewed the increasing propensity for violence among young people as a sign that parents are no longer able to take adequate care of their children’s upbringing. In the attempt to counteract this phenomenon with stricter juvenile criminal law, he saw a dangerous reversal of roles: responsibility for the behavior of minors, which actually belongs to the parents, is transferred to the young people themselves.

According to Katherine Hayles , Stiegler differentiates between hyper attention , an attention that is directed at several goals at the same time or quickly switches back and forth between them, and deep attention , the persistent preoccupation with a single object. Stiegler was of the opinion that hyper attention is favored by excessive television consumption. In children in particular, this irreversibly changes the structure of the brain and leads to attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder . In contrast, Stiegler saw deep attention as prototypically realized in reading and writing books.

Publications

• La technique et le temps. Tome 1: La faute d'Epiméthée (1994). ISBN 2718604409
• La technique et le temps. Tome 2: La désorientation (1996). ISBN 2718604689
• Échographies de la télévision. Entretiens filmés (with Jacques Derrida , 1996). ISBN 2718604808
• La technique et le temps. Tome 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être (2001). ISBN 2718605634
• Passer à l'acte (2003). ISBN 2718606169 (German: Zum Akt , Berlin 2007, Merve Verlag . ISBN 978-3-88396-228-3 )
• Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer: Du 11 septembre au 21 avril (2003). ISBN 2718606290
• De la misère symbolique: Tome 1. L'époque hyperindustrielle (2004). ISBN 2718606355
• De la misère symbolique: Tome 2. La Catastrophè du sensible (2004). ISBN 2718606347
• Philosopher par accident: Entretiens avec Elie During (2004). ISBN 2718606487
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 1, La décadence des démocraties industrielles (2004). ISBN 2718606606
• Constituer l'Europe: Tome 1. Dans un monde sans vergogne (2005). ISBN 2718606894
• Constituer l'Europe: Tome 2. Le motif européen (2005). ISBN 2718606908
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 2. Les sociétés incontrolables d'individus désaffectés (2006). ISBN 2718607068
• Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 3. L'esprit perdu du capitalisme (2006). ISBN 2718607157
• Des pieds et des mains (2006). ISBN 2227475668
• La télécratie contre la democratie (2006). ISBN 2082105695
• Réenchanter le monde: La valeur esprit contre le populisme industriel (2006, with Marc Crépon , George Collins, and Catherine Perret). ISBN 2082105857
• The discreet picture. In: Jacques Derrida , Bernhard Stiegler (Ed.): Echographien. TV talks. Vienna 2006, pp. 161–180.
• Prendre soin. De la jeunesse et des generations. T.1 (2008). ISBN 2081207362 (German: The logic of worry. Loss of enlightenment through technology and media. I.1 , Suhrkamp, ​​2008. ISBN 978-3-518-26006-7 ; From biopolitics to psychomower. I.2 , Suhrkamp 2009 . ISBN 978-3-518-12575-5 )
• Technology and time. The guilt of Epimetheus , diaphanes , Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-03734-012-7
• Thinking to the limits of the machine , ed. by Erich Hörl , Diaphanes, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-03734-057-8
• Hypermateriality and Psycho Power , ed. and with an essay by Erich Hörl, Diaphanes, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-03734-130-8
• Ce qui fait que la vie vaut la peine d'être vécue - De la pharmacologie . Flammarion, 2013. ISBN 978-2081220355
• Pharmacologie du Front national - Suivi du Vocabulaire d'Ars Industrialis . Flammarion, 2013. ISBN 978-2081284616

Web links

• Enregistrements audio de Bernard Stiegler (French)
• Culture as the heart of a new economic development - Interview with Bernard Stiegler
• Lecture at the Bochum Kolloquium Medienwissenschaft (bkm) (video / audio) Hypomnesis And Grammatisation (English)
• Website of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation, IRI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernard Stiegler, penseur of mutations contemporaines, mort est à 68 ans. Le Figaro, August 7, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ Bernard Stiegler, le grand philosophe français d'Epineuil-le-Fleuriel, est décédé. August 7, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 (French).