Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory : the value of spirit against industrial populism / Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Trevor Arthur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiegler, Bernard, author.

Series:

Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory.

Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory

Standardized Title:

Réenchanter le monde. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--Social aspects.

Industries.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism and the resulting destruction of the consumer's savoir-vivre. Reflecting the collective work of his activist organisation, Ars Industrialis, Stiegler here sets forth an alternative path to that of 'industrial populism', one that appeals to the force of the human spirit.The Re-Enchantment of the World also includes the manifesto of Ars Industrialis and an account of the organisation's 2005 summit in Tunis."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"Influential French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler lays out his thinking on capitalism, technology and culture and his Ars Industrialis organisation"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: What is to be done? Manifesto of ... Ars Industrialis

Part I: Refounding Society. 1. The Industrial Age as Service Capitalism ; 2. The Consumer Discharged of his Existence ; 3. Hyperindustrial Service Societies as the Destruction of Individuation by Controlling Adoption Procedures ; 4. Re-Enchanting the World in the Face of the Unhappy Destiny of Consumption ; 5. 'R' Technologies and the New Apparatuses of Spirit ; 6. Overcoming the Capitalism of Drives and Fighting Against its Becoming-Barbaric ; 7. Startled, We Begin Again Differently (!) / The Sudden Surge: a Nw Beginning ; 8. Grammatization and Individuation - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ; 9. The Revolution of Capitalism ; 10. A European Way of Life ; 11. The Plan that Enchants Me

Part II: Investing in the Augmentation of the Value of the 'Human Spirit' Against the Reign of Ignorance. 12. From the Informatization of Society to "Information Society" ; 13. From the "Information Society" to the "Society of Knowledge" - or, On the Possibility of the Re-Enchantment of the World ; 14. Companies, Public Power, and Industrial Populism ; 15. Changing the Industrial Paradigm ; 16. Information Society, Disenchantment, De-Motivation and Control of Knowledge ; 17. The Re-Instrumentation of Knowledge, the Future of Hyperindustrial Society ; 18. Knowledge and Information ; 19. Knowledge and Memory, or Reign of Ignorance? ; 20. The Risk of Disindividuation as the Growth of Ignorance Rather Than Knowledge ; 21. Cognitive Saturation and Knowledge Management ; 22. Instruments of Knowledge and the Criteria of Selection That They Produce ; 23. Being and Becoming in Technoscience ; 24. The Crisis of Education ; 25. Practical Consequences Motion adopted by Ars Industrial on the eve of the Tunis summit

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441150561

1441150560

9781441169259

1441169253

9781472545947

147254594X

9781441167347

144116734X

OCLC:

944225583