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Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler
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Bernard Stiegler in The Ister
Born (1952-04-01) 1 April 1952 (age 64)
Seine-et-Oise
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Deconstruction
Post-structuralism
Institutions Institut de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges-Pompidou
Main interests
Philosophy of technology · Individuation
Notable ideas
Symbolic misery

Bernard Stiegler (French: [stiɡlɛʁ]; born 1 April 1952) is a French philosopher. He is head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He is also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.

Stiegler's work is influenced by, among others, Sigmund Freud, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Valéry, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.

Key themes are technology, time, individuation, consumerism, consumer capitalism, technological convergence, digitization, Americanization, education and the future of politics and human society.


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