The technology and madness in computational capitalism Stiegler, Bernard. creator Ross, Daniel 1970- text bibliography enk Cambridge, UK Medford, MA Polity Press c2019 2019 monographic eng

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vi, 418 p. Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment--with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. He contends that we are living in an absence of epokhē in the philosophical sense, by which Stiegler means that we have lost our path of thinking and being. Weaving in accounts from his own life story, including struggles with depression and time spent in prison, Stiegler calls for a new epokhē based on public power. He states that we must forge new circuits of meaning outside of the established algorithmic routes. For only then will forms of thinking and life be able to arise that restore meaning and aspiration to the individual. --Adapted from publisher description. Disruption : a "new form of barbarism" -- The absence of epoch -- Radicalization and submission -- Administration of savagery, disruption and barbarism -- Outside the law : Saint-Michel and the dragon -- Who am I? : hauntings, spirits, delusions -- Dreams and nightmares in the anthropocene -- Morality and disinhibition in modern times -- Ordinary madness, extraordinary madnesses -- The dream of Michel Foucault -- Generation Strauss-Kahn -- Thirty-eight years later -- Death drive, moral philosophy and denial -- Nonconformism, "uncoolness" and libido sciendi at the university -- The wounds of truth : panic, cowardice, courage -- Conclusion : let's make a dream. Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Daniel Ross. Translation of: Dans la disruption : comment ne pas devenir fou?. Les Liens qui Liberent, 2016. Followed by a conversation about Christianity with Alain Jugnon, Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler. Includes bibliographical references and index. Technological innovations Social aspects Capitalism Social aspects Computers and civilization T14.5 .S75 2019 9781509529278 (pbk.) 1509529276 (pbk.) 9781509529261 (hbk.) 1509529268 (hbk.) 2018046809 210122 on1057731144