Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler in 2019. Photo: Thinkerview.
Born	April 1, 1952(1952-04-01) Villebon-sur-Yvette (Essonne), France
Died	August 6, 2020(2020-08-06) (aged 68) Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, France
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Bernard Stiegler (1 April 1952 – 6 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also a co-founder of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis (2005), and philosophy school pharmakon.fr at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel (2010).

Stiegler was a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne where he taught philosophy. Before taking up the post at the Pompidou Center, he was program director at the International College of Philosophy, Deputy Director General of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, then Director General at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM, 2002-2005).

Stiegler published numerous books and articles on philosophy, technology, digitization, capitalism, consumer culture, etc. Among his writings, his three volumes of La technique et le temps (in English as Technics and Time), two volumes of De la misère symbolique, three volumes of Mécréance et discrédit and two volumes Constituer l'Europe are particularly well known. Stiegler had a long term engagement with the relation between technology and philosophy, not only in a theoretical sense, but also situating them in industry and society as practices. He published extensively on the problem of individuation in consumer capitalism.

He led several research programmes in the domain of digital technologies applied to text, image, and sound, and he conceived and organised the Mémoires du Futur exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou in 1987.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Theses

• La faute d'Épiméthée : la technique et le temps. Doctoral thesis [thèse de doctorat]. Paris: EHESS. 1993, 686 pp. Supervised by Jacques Derrida.

Monographs

TT1-3, La technique et le temps, Paris: Galilee, 3 vols; 1994-2004 (1-3) & Paris: Fayard, omnibus edition, 3 vols, 2018, 970pp.

• Vol 1 La faute d'Epiméthée, 1994, 279 pp.
• Vol 2 La Désorientation, 1996, 282 pp.
• Vol 3 Le Temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être, 2001, 329 pp.

TT4-7, unpublished, status unknown.

• † Vol 4 L’épreuve de la vérité dans l’ère post-véridique, unpublished, cf. Paris: Fayard, 2018, Preface[1].
• † Vol 5 Symboles et diaboles, unpublished, ibid.
• † Vol 6 La guerre des esprits, unpublished, ibid.
• † Vol 7 Le défaut qu’il faut. Idiome, idios, idiotie, ibid.

MD1-3, Mécréance et Discrédit, Paris: Galilee, 3 vols.

• Vol 1 La decadence des democraties industrielles, 2004. 214 pp.
• Vol 2 Les societés incontrôlables industrielles d'individus désaffectés, 2006, 178 pp.
• Vol 3 L'esprit perdu du capitalisme, 2006, 127 pp.

MS1-2, De la Misère symbolique, Paris: Galilee, 2 vols.

• Vol 1 L'époque hyperindustrielle, 2004. 194 pp.
• Vol 2 La « catastrophe » du sensible, 2005, 292 pp.

SA1-2, La Société automatique, Paris: Fayard, 2 vols.

• Vol 1 L'avenir du travail, 2015. 300 pp.
• †Vol 2 L'Avenir du savoir, unpublished, status unknown.

PS1-2, Prendre soin, Paris: Flammarion, 2 vols.

• Vol 1 De la jeunesse et des générations, 2008. 352 pp.
• †Vol 2 Agriculture et industrie à l'époque des technologies transformationnelles, unpublished, status unknown.

QP1-2, Qu'appelle-t-on panser?', Paris: Les Liens qui libèrent, 2 vols.

• Vol 1 L'immense régression, 2018. 352 pp.
• Vol 2 La leçon de Greta Thunberg, 2020, 524 pp.

CE1-2, Constituer l'Europe', Paris: Galilee, 2 vols.

• Vol 1 Dans un monde sans vergogne, with Jean-Marc Adolphe, Jean-Marc Lachaud, Catherine Geel & Ariel Kyrou. 2005, 128 pp.
• Vol 2 Le motif européen, with Jean-Paul Baquiast & Alain Didier-Weil. 2005, 155 pp.

Publications

• Books on Monoskop Log
• Aaaaarg
• Writings on CAIRN

Links

• Profile on Goldsmiths (archived)
• Wikipedia