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Bernard Stiegler | |
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Born | Villebon-sur-Yvette, France | 1 April 1952
Died | 5 August 2020 Épineuil-le-Fleuriel,[2] France | (aged 68)
Education | Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (PhD, 1993) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Deconstruction Post-structuralism[1] |
Institutions | Institut de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges-Pompidou |
Main interests | Philosophy of technology · Individuation |
Notable ideas | Symbolic misery (mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes 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 the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel; and a co-founder in 2018 of Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" 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]
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