Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler in 2016
Born(1952-04-01)1 April 1952
Died5 August 2020(2020-08-05) (aged 68)
Education
EducationUniversité de Toulouse-Le Mirail
EHESS (PhD, 1993)
Doctoral advisorJacques Derrida
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Deconstruction
Post-structuralism[2]
InstitutionsInstitut de recherche et d'innovation (Centre Georges-Pompidou)
Doctoral studentsYuk Hui Anaïs Nony
Main interestsPhilosophy of technology · Individuation
Notable ideasSymbolic misery (mass exclusion from cultural production as a form of generalized impoverishment)

Bernard Stiegler (French: [bɛʁnaʁ stiɡlɛʁ]; 1 April 1952 – 5 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 founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. He co-founded Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" in 2018. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.

Stiegler has been described as "one of the most influential European philosophers of the 21st century"[3] and an important theorist of the effects of digital technology.[4]

  1. ^ "Bernard Stiegler, le grand philosophe français d'Epineuil-le-Fleuriel, est décédé", 7. August 2020.
  2. ^ Benoît Dillet, Robert Porter, Iain Mackenzie (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, ch. 23.
  3. ^ Bilmes, Leonid (7 November 2019). "Daring to Hope for the Improbable: On Bernard Stiegler's "The Age of Disruption"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jeffries was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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