Maison Française
ICLS Graduate Students: Nick Croggon, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrio, and Roberto Valdovinos
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia Maison Française, GSAS, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Center for Justice, GSAPP, the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and Department of Art History and Archeology.
Bernard Stiegler, introduced by Reinhold Martin
Mainstream anthropology, from Lévi-Strauss to contemporary paleoanthropology, has often downplayed the fundamental role of technical development in defining the human. Opposed to that view, in accordance with André Leroi-Gourhan, Bernard Stiegler argues that human life is tightly related to a process of externalization of life into tools and artifacts: humanity is co-extensive with technics. He proposes a “neganthropology” that considers the transformations that technical development impose on our internal and external milieu. A radical example of how technics impact our environment is the way our economic system is subordinated to data in today’s absolutely computationalist 24/7 capitalism. In it, the “society of control” has become a society of hypercontrol. In this lecture Stiegler will argue that an “art of hypercontrol” would allow us to reformulate creation, politics, law, economics, science and technology through practices of invention that pertain to the order of “neganthropology.”
Bernard Stiegler is a philosopher and social activist. He has published some thirty books on philosophy, aesthetics, technology and economy, among other subjects. His most well-known work,Technics and Time, dwells on the social, political and psychological mutations brought about by new technologies. He has taught at the Collège International de Philosophie and directs the Institut de Recherche et Innovation at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He is president of the Ars Industrialisassociation, which researches the role of technology for proposing a political economy beyond capitalism.
Event co-sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia Maison Française, GSAS, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Center for Justice, GSAPP, the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and Department of Art History and Archeology.
Link to the video recording of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5a1TnUjQU
