Son[i]a #285
Bernard Stiegler
This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Library music produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp at Ina GRM (Paris). Interview by Antonio Gagliano. Produced by Antonio Gagliano.
Author of a long list of books on technics, industry, and the proletarianisation of knowledge, Bernard Stiegler (b. 1952, France) is the head of the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI) at Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris. He is also the founder of the interdisciplinary working group Ars Industrialis, which explores technologies of the mind, and of the philosophy school pharmakon.fr, based in the tiny French rural commune of Épineuil-le-Fleuriel.
In his books and lectures, Stiegler presents a broad philosophical approach in which technology becomes the starting point for thinking about living together and individual fulfilment. All technology has the power to increase entropy in the world, and also to reduce it: it is potentially a poison or cure, depending on our ability to distil beneficial, non-toxic effects through its use. Based on this premise, Stiegler proposes a new model of knowledge and a large-scale contributive economy to coordinate an alliance between social agents such as academia, politics, business, and banks. The goal, he says, is to create a collective intelligence capable of reversing the planet’s self-destructive course, and to develop a plan – within an urgent ten-year time-frame – with solutions to the challenges of the Anthropocene, robotics, and the increasing quantification of life.
In this podcast Bernard Stiegler talks about education and smartphones, translations and linguists, about economic war, climate change, and political stupidity. We also chat about pharmacology and organology, about the erosion of biodiversity, the vital importance of error, and the Neganthropocene as a desirable goal to work towards, ready to be constructed.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Irit Rogoff that we were unable to include the first time around.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff talks about ways of creating participatory, creative, and cognitive alliances that allow us to critically inhabit contemporaneity. She also calls for the need to devise processes of unlearning, inside and outside the academy, that will pave the way to new and unexpected kinds of knowledge.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Lúa Coderch that we were unable to include the first time around.
Lúa Coderch
Lúa Coderch talks about photographs of journeys into space, the imitation of the sounds of the landscape, the hidden work in her images, and about improvising shelters as a way of connecting to others.
Georges Didi-Huberman
Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images, a problematic issue that stems from the definition of what an image is, and from the hierarchy that has historically been imposed on the dialectic between words and images.