Bernard Stiegler's Nanjing Lectures (2016-2019) - new title from Open Humanities Press

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Bernard 
Stiegler's Nanjing Lectures (2016-2019), translated by Daniel Ross.

Nanjing Lectures 2016-2019 addresses the relationship of Platonic 
metaphysics to the age of ‘post-truth’, the shift from biopower to 
neuropower in platform capitalism, and the need for a new epistemology, 
one that would be neither materialist nor idealist but hyper-materialist.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, Nanjing Lectures is freely available:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/nanjing-lectures/

Wishing you a happy, productive and hyper-materialist 2020!

Sigi, David, Gary

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Nanjing Lectures 2016-2019

In this series of lectures, delivered at Nanjing University from 2016 to 
2019, Bernard Stiegler rethinks the so-called Anthropocene in relation 
to philosophy’s failure to reckon with the manifold and indeed “cosmic” 
consequences of the entropic and thermodynamic revolution. Beginning 
with the Oxford Dictionaries’ decision to make “post-truth” the 2016 
word of the year, and taking this as an opportunity to understand the 
implications for Heidegger’s “history of being”, “history of truth” and 
Gestell, the first series of lectures enter into an original 
consideration of the relationship between Socrates and Plato (and of 
tragic Greece in general) and its meaning for the history of Western 
philosophy. The following year’s lecture series traverse a path from 
Foucault’s biopower to psychopower to neuropower, and then to a critique 
of neuroeconomics. Revising Husserl’s account of retention to focus on 
the irreducible connection between human memory and technological 
memory, the lectures culminate in reflections on the significance of 
neurotechnology in platform capitalism. The concept of hyper-matter is 
introduced in the lectures of 2019 as requisite for an epistemology that 
escapes the trap of opposing the material and the ideal in order to 
respond to the need for a new critique of the notion of information and 
technological performativity (of which Moore’s law both is and is not an 
example) in an age when the biosphere has become a technosphere.

Author Bio
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher who is director of the Institut 
de recherche et d’innovation, and a doctor of the Ecole des Hautes 
Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has been a program director at the 
Collège international de philosophie, senior lecturer at Université de 
Compiègne, deputy director general of the Institut National de 
l’Audiovisuel, director of IRCAM, and director of the Cultural 
Development Department at the Centre Pompidou. He is also president of 
Ars Industrialis, an association he founded in 2006, as well as a 
distinguished professor of the Advanced Studies Institute of Nanjing, 
and visiting professor of the Academy of the Arts of Hangzhou, as well 
as a member of the French government’s Conseil national du numérique. 
Stiegler has published more than thirty books, all of which situate the 
question of technology as the repressed centre of philosophy, and in 
particular insofar as it constitutes an artificial, exteriorised memory 
that undergoes numerous transformations in the course of human existence.

Daniel Ross has translated eight books by Bernard Stiegler, including 
the forthcoming In the Disruption: How Not to Go Mad? (Polity Press). 
With David Barison, he is the co-director of the award-winning 
documentary about Martin Heidegger, The Ister, which premiered at the 
Rotterdam Film Festival and was the recipient of the Prix du Groupement 
National des Cinémas de Recherche (GNCR) and the Prix de l’AQCC at the 
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (2004). He is the author of Violent 
Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and numerous articles and 
chapters on the work of Bernard Stiegler.

-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info

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