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The Age of Disruption

Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
380 Seiten
Englisch
Wiley & Sonserschienen am12.07.20191. Auflage
Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in a kind of technological Wild West in which they find themselves increasingly powerless, driven by their lack of agency to the point of madness. How can we find a way out of this situation? In this major new book, Bernard Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment. We are living in an absence of epokhÄ in the philosophical sense, by which Stiegler means that we have lost our path of thinking and being. Weaving in powerful accounts from his own life story, including struggles with depression and time spent in prison, Stiegler calls for a new epokhÄ based on public power. We must forge new circuits of meaning outside of the established algorithmic routes. For only then will forms of thinking and life be able to arise that restore meaning and aspiration to the individual. Concluding with a dialogue between Stiegler and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, philosophy and the humanities generally.mehr
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KlappentextHalf a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in a kind of technological Wild West in which they find themselves increasingly powerless, driven by their lack of agency to the point of madness. How can we find a way out of this situation? In this major new book, Bernard Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment. We are living in an absence of epokhÄ in the philosophical sense, by which Stiegler means that we have lost our path of thinking and being. Weaving in powerful accounts from his own life story, including struggles with depression and time spent in prison, Stiegler calls for a new epokhÄ based on public power. We must forge new circuits of meaning outside of the established algorithmic routes. For only then will forms of thinking and life be able to arise that restore meaning and aspiration to the individual. Concluding with a dialogue between Stiegler and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, philosophy and the humanities generally.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5095-2927-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum12.07.2019
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten380 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht642 g
Artikel-Nr.50629948

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: The EpokhÄ of My Life 11 Disruption: A New Form of Barbarism´ 32 The Absence of Epoch 103 Radicalization and Submission 194 Administration of Savagery, Disruption and Barbarism 355 Outside the Law: Saint-Michel and the Dragon 46Part Two: Madness, Anthropocene, Disruption 696 Who am I? Hauntings, Spirits, Delusions 717 Dreams and Nightmares in the Anthropocene 868 Morality and Disinhibition in Modern Times 1089 Ordinary Madness, Extraordinary Madnesses 13210 The Dream of Michel Foucault 148 Part Three: Demoralization 16511 Generation Strauss-Kahn 16712 Thirty-Eight Years Later 19313 Death Drive, Moral Philosophy and Denial 22014 Nonconformism, Uncoolness´ and Libido Sciendi at the University 23715 The Wounds of Truth: Panic, Cowardice, Courage 258Conclusion: Let´s Make a Dream 286A Conversation about Christianity 313Notes 330Index 391mehr
Kritik
'A summation of his thinking to date - from originary technicity to the Anthropocene - this is also Stiegler's most personal philosophical work so far. Discussing his intellectual apprenticeship while in prison, and his practice of thinking and writing as a form of self-medication against depression and madness, he issues a passionate call to tend the wounds of contemporary existence, whether psychological, economic or ecological, through the collective transformation of the wilful destruction indulged in by our digital superpowers into a future worth wanting to live for.'
Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge

"[I]ntricate and brilliant . . . enunciated by a humane and compassionate voice."
Los Angeles Review of Booksmehr