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In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.
List of contents
* Foreword
* Of Symbolic Misery, the Control of Affects, and the Shame that Follows
* As Though We Were Lacking
* or How to Find Weapons in Alain Resnais's Same Old Song
* Allegory of the Anthill
* The Loss of Individuation in the Hyper-industrial Age
* Tiresias and the War of Time
* On a Film by Bertrand Bonello
* Afterword
About the author
Bernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Summary
In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.
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"In this decisive contribution to a critical understanding of contemporary life, Stiegler demonstrates how mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes a form of generalized impoverishment, threatening to reduce our existence to mere subsistence. Typically though, he also suggests how we might build alternatives to this 'symbolic misery'. This work forms a vital part of Stiegler's essential project."
Martin Crowley, Queen's College, University of Cambridge
"Expanding on Deleuze's idea of 'control societies', Bernard Stiegler provocatively diagnoses the 'misery' of contemporary society as a collective exclusion from the creation of symbols. A war is being waged, he argues: capitalistic marketing is the instrument of choice, the battleground is aestheticsand the fight is for the control of affect. Recommended for anyone interested in the contemporary cultural condition."
N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University
