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According to the French National Radio
(Radio France)
According to the report, Bernard Stigler, a famous contemporary French philosopher of technology, died on August 6.
Bernard Stigler was born in 1952, joined the French Communist Party in 1968 and was arrested in 1978 for robbing banks. During his five years in prison, Stigler spent more than a dozen hours a day studying phenomenological works and discovering the importance of "technical" problems. After his release from prison, he was mentored by the famous French philosopher Derrida and received his Ph.D. from the French Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in 1992.
Bernard Stigler
Stigler's technological philosophy inherits the tradition of social critical theory of Marxism, especially the Frankfurt School, and extensively absorbs many ideological resources such as the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger, the technical philosophy of Simondon and Gill, the deconstructionism of Derrida, the anthropology of Lerois-Goran and Merlin Donald, and the modern natural science, and constructs a unique radical critical discourse that confronts the social reality of contemporary digital capitalism, because of the push of the "technical" problem from the edge of philosophy to the core position. This attracted so much attention that Stigler established his position in the field of philosophy and re-established the position of technology in the field of philosophy, which also made him one of the most important representatives of the critical theory camp of contemporary Western society.
Stigler's representative works include "Technology and Time", "Symbolic Poverty", "Doubt and Untrustworthiness", "Constituting Europe" and "Critique of New Political Economy". Among them, the three-volume edition of "Technology and Time", which established its academic status, has been translated into Chinese published, and "Symbolic Poverty" will soon be Chinese edition. In addition, Stiegler's classes and lectures in China have been included and published – "Art in the Anthropocene: Lectures of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Stigler" and "Nanjing Curriculum: From < German Ideology> to < Dialectics of Nature>: Reading Marx and Engels in the Anthropocene Era".
Technology and Time: The Faults of Epimetheus, by Bernard Stigler, translated by Pei Cheng, 2012
Stigler was a research supervisor at the Ecole Internationale de Philosophy in Paris and was the director and professor of the research group "Knowledge, Organization, Technological Systems" founded by him at the Technical University of Compiègne in 1993. He was also Deputy Director of the French National Audiovisual Institute and Director of the French Institute of Modern Music. Since 2006, Stigler has also been Director of the Cultural Development Department at the Centre Pompidou, dedicated to using "technology" to solve the "crisis" facing art.
Reference link: https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/series/bernard-stiegler
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