Win The Age Of Disruption: Technology And Madness In Computational Capitalism Documented By Bernard Stiegler Shared As Electronic Format

a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world

was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries.
What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living.
Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in a kind of technological Wild West in which they find themselves increasingly powerless, driven by their lack of agency to the point of madness.


How can we find a way out of this situation In this major new book, Bernard Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment.
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 powerful 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.
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.


Concluding with a dialogue between Stiegler and JeanLuc Nancy, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, philosophy and the humanities generally.
the Age of Disruption is a good book, although it is heavily laden with philosophical jargon that is sort of unique to Stiegler.
To read this and understand it people should have read Dialectic of Enlightenment at least first, It won't make sense without prior information, That said, with full context of Stiegler's arguments, I think he is correct that digital technologies introduce a disruptive element into the memory processes of people and that this operationalizes in a variety of ways.
People can become politically nihilist, suffer from mental illnesses, or engage in drug abuse, It is important to understand what Adorno and Horkheimer mean by Barbarism as well, as Stiegler routinely uses the phrase "New Barbarians," or "New Barbarism," to describe the current situation which results from interaction with capitalistic digital technologies.
This was forseen by Adorno and Horkheimer in the Culture Industry in thes, People become proletarianized, or stripped of their knowledge of how to live and how to do, This extends to the highest rungs of society, Stiegler cites Alan Greenspan testifying that he did not understand what went wrong in the economic collapse ofas an example of this.

Overall, I give this a, because it is worth reading, but you need to have read a lot of different philosophy stuff to understand what Stiegler is doing here.
As such, it limits its potential reader audience, which could be much wider if Stiegler used less jargon and philosophical examples.
But if he had done this, it would not be a Stiegler book,
Worth reading if you're really into continental philosophy or critical theory,
The twisted turns in the mind of a Primitivist, He would keep the plane, as the ticket is paid by the taxpayers anyway, but to hell with these computers that don't even speak proper French! Read the sample only Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is co founder of the political group Ars Industrialis.
Stanford University Press has published the first two volumes of Technics and Time, The Fault of Epimetheusand Disorientation, as well as his Acting Outand Taking Care of Youth and the Generations.
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