Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler's technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations which form the philosophical foundation of the volume.
Emerging scholars bring critical new reflections to the subject area, while more established academics, researchers and practitioners outline the mutating nature of aesthetics within historical and theoretical frameworks. Not only is interdisciplinarity a prevailing topic at work within this collection, but so too is there a delineation of the mutating, hybrid role inhabited by the arts practitioner – at once engineer, scientist and artist – in the changing landscape of digital cultural production.
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I warmly recommend this volume. Stieglers perspective is one of the deepest critique of digital capitalism and, at the same time, one of the strongest proposal for a new kind of technological development, especially in the social and academic fields. The book is not only able to fully represent such a perspective, but it is also a way to improve both Stieglers perspective and the ongoing research in digital arts. * Paolo Vignola, Professor of Philosophy of Literature and Literary Theory, Universidad de las Artes, Ecuador * Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler offers an interesting focus on Stieglerian philosophy, passing through epistemology, politics and the arts. This strong theoretical approach keeps together voices from different authors and perspectives, all of which cover an important lack in the several publications concerning Stieglers philosophy, that is, aesthetics and the arts. Being this one of the main concerns of the French philosopher, the book offers an important introduction to this field. * Sara Baranzoni, co-founder of La Deleuziana *
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A collection of philosophical and aesthetic essays, influenced by Bernard Stiegler, which focuses on the techno-cultural artefact in order to critique, engage, or respond to, an aspect of digital culture.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Digital Studies and Aesthetics: Neganthropology |
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| Introduction: `Prolegomenon to a Digital Studies Manifesto' Gerald Moore |
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Part 1 Tertiary Retention |
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Introduction Cormac Deane, Niill O'Dwyer and Michael O'Hara |
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1 Organology, Grammatization and Exosomatic Memory in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape Ntill O'Dwyer |
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2 A Therapeutics of the Image Michael O'Hara |
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3 The Control Room Imaginary and the Production of Sovereignty Cormac Deane |
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Introduction Aidan Delaney and Jeanette Doyle |
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4 Film Studies between Ekphrasis and Quotation Aidan Delaney |
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5 Thirty Years: An Analysis of the Exhibition Art Post-Internet through the Work of Bernard Stiegler with Reference to Jean-Francois Lyotard's Exhibition Les Immateriaux Jeanette Doyle |
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6 Pokemon UNESGO: Grammatization, Gamification and Listification in Contemporary Culture Connell Vaughan |
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Part 3 The Neganthropocene |
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Introduction Noel Fitzpatrick |
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7 Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland's Borderland EL Putnam |
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8 Mischievous Hermes: Digital Hermeneutics and Stiegler's Therapeutics Noel Fitzpatrick |
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| `Je suis philosophe': A Personal Note to Bernard Stiegler |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Bibliography |
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Noel Fitzpatrick is the Head of Research at the College of Arts and Tourism at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. He is regularly invited to speak at, and host, seminars internationally and is visiting lecturer at Saint Lucas University, Antwerp, Belgium. Noel is a member of Ars Industrialis, (Founded by Bernard Stiegler) and is a founding member of the Digital Studies network at the linstitut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He is also the co-editor of the journal in|print.
Néill ODwyer is an artist and practice-based research fellow at the Arts Technology Research Lab, in the Department of Drama, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a co-editor of The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, Towards the Real (2015). He is a member of the international Digital Studies Network initiated by the Institute of Research and Innovation, at the Pompidou Centre, and he is an associate researcher of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media.
Michael OHara is an artist and a Lecturer in Sculpture at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has been an active researcher with both the Aesthetics Seminar Group and Digital Studies Group for the past six years. His main research interests include developing a phenomenology of digital technologies that critically analyses the materiality of such technologies. Specifically, he is interested in how digital technologies foreground computation as a governing principal that both mediate and cultivate new types of object relations.
