Screen LibraryThe re-enchantment of the world : the value of spirit against industrial populism /
"Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the same time both an accessible summation of that work and a continuation of it, The Re-Enchant...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory
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"Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the same time both an accessible summation of that work and a continuation of it, The Re-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct an utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism and the resulting destru "Influential French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler lays out his thinking on capitalism, technology and culture and his Ars Industrialis organisation"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 120 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781441169259 (paperback) : 1441169253 (paperback) 9781441103468 (hardback) 1441103465 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HD60 |
| CLC: | F272-05 |
| Call Number: | F272-05/S855 |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: What is to be done?Manifesto of... Ars IndustrialisPart I: Refounding Society1. The Industrial Age as Service Capitalism2. The Consumer Discharged of his Existence3. Hyperindustrial Service Societies as the Destruction of Individuation by Controlling Adoption Procedures4. Re-Enchanting the World in the Face of the Unhappy Destiny of Consumption5. 'R' Technologies and the New Apparatuses of Spirit6. Overcoming the Capitalism of Drives and Fighting Against its Becoming-Barbaric7. Startled, We Begin Again Differently (!) / The Sudden Surge: a Nw |