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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bernard stiegler”
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  • The Age of Disruption

    Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism

    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Re-Enchantment of the World

    The Value of Spirit Against Industrial Populism

    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    Translated by Mr Trevor Arthur ...
    Series series Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
    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 ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • States of Shock

    Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century

    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness. However, philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century abandoned the critique of political economy, and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Philosophising By Accident

    Interviews with Elie During

    by Bernard Stiegler ...

    $23.39 USD

  • What Makes Life Worth Living

    On Pharmacology

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Machine

    by Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch, Bernard Stiegler ...
    Series series In Search of Media
    On the social consequences of machinesAutomation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of technology. Bernard Stiegler’s automatic society illustrates how digital media networks establish a new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Sociology of Emancipation

    by Luc Boltanski ...
    The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Morphing Intelligence

    From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains

    by Catherine Malabou ...
    Translated by Carolyn Shread ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny ...
    This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Throwing the Moral Dice

    Ethics and the Problem of Contingency

    by Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi, Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe0, Slavoj Žižek1 ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD