by Bernard Stiegler · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782718606347
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In the 20th century, consumerist capitalism took control of the symbolic through its hegemonic appropriation of industrial technology. Aesthetics became both the weapon and the theater of economic warfare, resulting in a symbolic misery where conditioning replaces experience. This misery is a shame, the "shame of being a man" that the philosopher sometimes feels, provoked by the "control societies". Bernard Stiegler seeks to understand the historical trends that have led to the specificity of the present and to forge weapons, turning a network of questions into an arsenal of concepts for the struggle. The fight against what in capitalism leads to its own destruction and ours is an aesthetic war, inscribed in a struggle against the liquidation of "spirit value", as Paul Valéry said.
Bernard Stiegler 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.
