The Age Of Disruption Technology And Madness In Computational Capitalism

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9781509529278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Disruption written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Polity. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 epokhē 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 epokhē 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.

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509529292
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Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564810X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decadence of Industrial Democracies written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of industrial technologies and the prospects for human growth.

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762724
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries.

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745681948
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Makes Life Worth Living written by Bernard Stiegler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point. Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate. Returning to Marx’s theory, Stiegler argues that consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the limits of subsistence, but the desire that is characteristic of human spirit. The cure to this malaise is to be found in what Stiegler calls a ‘pharmacology of the spirit’. Here, pharmacology has nothing to do with the chemical supplements developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmakon, defined as both cure and poison, refers to the technical objects through which we open ourselves to new futures, and thereby create the spirit that makes us human. By reference to a range of figures, from Socrates, Simondon and Derrida to the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Stiegler shows that technics are both the cause of our suffering and also what makes life worth living.

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting Out written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his political, philosophical, and technical diagnoses of contemporary life.

Author : Mattias Vermeiren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509537708
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Inequality written by Mattias Vermeiren and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must, therefore, put inequality and crisis at the heart of the picture. In this innovative new textbook Mattias Vermeiren does just this, demonstrating that both the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis resulted from a mutually reinforcing but ultimately unsustainable relationship between countries with debt-led and export-led growth models, models fundamentally shaped by soaring income and wealth inequality. He traces the emergence of these two growth models by giving a comprehensive overview, deeply informed by the comparative and international political economy literature, of recent developments in the four key domains that have shaped the dynamics of crisis and inequality: macroeconomic policy, social policy, corporate governance and financial policy. He goes on to assess the prospects for the emergence of a more egalitarian and sustainable form of democratic capitalism. This fresh and insightful overview of contemporary Western capitalism will be essential reading for all students and scholars of international and comparative political economy.

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804730121
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technics and Time, 2 written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Time 2: Disorientation continues Stiegler's interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when speed and delay are irreconcilable, the crisis of "human being" itself.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642281028
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Machine written by Ian Watson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating... This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

Author : Stephen J. Guastello
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134787855
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos, Catastrophe, and Human Affairs written by Stephen J. Guastello and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether talking about steering a wheelbarrow over rugged terrain or plotting the course of international relations, human performance systems involve change. Sometimes changes are subtle or evolutionary, sometimes they are catastrophic or revolutionary, and sometimes the changes are from periods of relative calm to periods of vibrant oscillations to periods of chaos. As a general rule, more complex systems are likely to produce more complex forms of change. Although social scientists have long acknowledged that change occurs and have considered ways to effect desirable change, the dynamical processes of change have been poorly understood in the past. This volume combines recent advances in mathematics and experimental design with the best available social science theories to produce a new, integrated, and compact theory of work, organizations, and social evolution. The domains of application extend from human decision-making processes to personnel selection and work motivation, work performance under conditions of stress, accident and health risk analysis, the development of social institutions and economic systems, creativity and innovation, organizational development and group dynamics, and political revolutions and war. Relative to other literature on nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS), this book is unique in that it integrates new developments in NDS with substantive psychological theory. It builds on many recent developments in organizational theory to show that nonlinear dynamics were often implicit in those works all along. The result is an entirely new way of viewing social events, understanding change processes, and asking questions about social systems. This book also contains much new empirical work and explains the newly developed methods for testing these new hypotheses.