Lecturer: Dr. Daniel Ross
Moderator: Professor LU Xinghua
Hosted by Academy of European Cultures, Faculty of Art and CreativeIndustry, Tongji University
From November 2 to November 22
Place: Rm. 410, YUNTONG Building, Siping-Campus, Tongji University
Programm:
1.What is philosophy? （Nov. 2; 18:30）
1st Session: PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNICS
2.Exteriorization (Leroi-Gourhan) and différance (Derrida)(Nov. 4; 15:00)
3.Three kinds of soul (Aristotle) and three kinds of retention (Husserl)(Nov. 6; 18:30)
4.Individuation (Simondon) and resoluteness (Heidegger) (Nov. 9; 18:30)
2nd Session: ORGANOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
5.The pharmakon: grammatization and proletarianization (Nov. 11; 15:00)
6.Libidinal economy and arche-cinema (Nov. 13;18:30)
3rd NEGANTHROPOLOGY
7.Entropy, automation and disruption (Nov. 16;18:30)
8.Cybernetics, Ereignis and the Neganthropocene (Nov. 18; 15:00)
DISCUSSION
9.Discussion, including Girard, Thiel andmimetic contagion on socialnetworks(Nov. 20; 18:30)
10. Discussion, including China and neurotechnical individuation (Nov. 22; 18:30)
Teaching Assistant: HANLinjun （1597176485@qq.com）
The aim of this lecture seriesis to survey the work of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, from his first published work, Technics and Time,1 (published in French in 1994), and up until his most recent work, The Age of Disruption (published in French in 2016), and even beyond. The argument of these lectures will be that Stiegler's work falls into three distinct phases: (1) the philosophy of technics introduced in 1994; (2) a more directly political organological and pharmacological phase commencing after 2001; and (3) a profound transformation of the foundations of his work, beginning in 2014, and concerned with questions of entropy of all kinds, and with the geological epoch that has come to be known as the Anthropocene. This lecture series will follow the course of these three phases, introducing the fundamental foundations, concepts and arguments that are elaborated across Stiegler's more than 30 books. While each of these phases is distinct, the profound consistency of his thought over the last 24years will also be elucidated.
Stiegler is at the absolute forefront of philosophical thinking today, but his work has from the outset also exceeded the bounds of traditional philosophy. His thought and practice is founded in the necessity of embracing, at the deepest level, the work and understandings that are derived from scientific knowledge and technological development, but also in the need to exceed scientific and technological understanding. Stiegler's technological preoccupations have always been accompanied by a profound worry about the course of technological development and its implications for the future, and for that reason his work has always been eminently political, but this concern has only intensified over the years, and therefore, along with it, so too has his sense of the absolute necessity of thinking the conditions of possibility of a positive future, conditions that today must be digital and macroeconomic. In addition to the conceptual foundations that will be elaborated over these lectures, so too there will be conveyed the urgency of his thinking and his care, in what amounts for him to a global state of emergency characterized by ecological destruction, industrial populism, post-truth, collective denial and immense regression.
