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Opening a major new front in discussions of the Anthropocene, The Neganthropocene is a collection of recent lectures by the leading French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler. In this volume, Stiegler engages substantially with Alfred North Whitehead, Jacques Derrida, Gilbert Simondon, Peter Sloterdijk, Karl Marx, Benjamin Bratton, and others in his renewed thought of the concepts of entropy and negentropy. Stiegler's life-long encounter with the work of Martin Heidegger reappears here in pursuit of the question not of what is called ""thinking"" (penser) but, in a twist on old French, of what is called ""caring"" (panser) as the possibility of a new therapeutic theory and practice capable of responding to the massive psychological, social and ecological toxicity associated with what, for Stiegler, is the disruptive age of the Entropocene.

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Bernard Stiegler is the most important French theorist to come after Derrida, and one of the most important thinkers anywhere about the effects of digital technology. The Neganthropocene is a provocative work, in which Stiegler develops several original concepts in an effort to challenge the dominance of the Anthropocene era itself and just as much of the conceptual apparatus that we have developed to understand it and to resist its destructive effects. - David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University. The urgent question today is not how we got into the Anthropocene - it's a bit late to worry about that - but how we might get out of it again, with lives worth living and a world worth living in. In his meditations on what he calls The Neganthropocene, Bernard Stiegler starts to think the way to a future beyond our current impasses and dilemmas. - Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University. Bernard Stiegler offers a unique series of tactics to disrupt and short circuit the entropic ubiquity of the Anthropocene. His Neganthropocene is a jubilant escape route, a will to transformative and politically accountable chaos that remaps agency, power, semiocapitalism. Stiegler opens ways to consider a future within an apocalypse that may or may not include humans but that revels in what humans denouncing their anthropocentrism can do here and now. - Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin University.

"""Bernard Stiegler is the most important French theorist to come after Derrida, and one of the most important thinkers anywhere about the effects of digital technology. The Neganthropocene is a provocative work, in which Stiegler develops several original concepts in an effort to challenge the dominance of the Anthropocene era itself and just as much of the conceptual apparatus that we have developed to understand it and to resist its destructive effects."" - David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University. ""The urgent question today is not how we got into the Anthropocene - it's a bit late to worry about that - but how we might get out of it again, with lives worth living and a world worth living in. In his meditations on what he calls The Neganthropocene, Bernard Stiegler starts to think the way to a future beyond our current impasses and dilemmas."" - Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University. ""Bernard Stiegler offers a unique series of tactics to disrupt and short circuit the entropic ubiquity of the Anthropocene. His Neganthropocene is a jubilant escape route, a will to transformative and politically accountable chaos that remaps agency, power, semiocapitalism. Stiegler opens ways to consider a future within an apocalypse that may or may not include humans but that revels in what humans denouncing their anthropocentrism can do here and now."" - Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin University."

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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.

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