He had reviewed the risks that posed the technological development on the traditional use, predicting its demise.
Bernard Stiegler, philosopher, highly critical of the capitalist system who had dedicated his research to the changes brought about in society by digital technology, died Thursday at the age of 68 years, announced the international College of philosophy. Committed thinker on the left, who took a position against the excesses of a liberal society, Bernard Stiegler has focused its attention on the issues of mutations – social, political, economic, and psychological – brought by the technological development.
He had reviewed the risks posed by these changes on the traditional use, predicting its demise. He has been director of the Institute for research and innovation (IRI) created at the Centre Pompidou to imagine the changes of the cultural practices driven by digital technologies, and was the founder and president of a group of philosophical reflection, Ars industrialis.
extremely atypical
Born in Villebon-sur-Yvette in the Essonne department in 1952, he had a route very atypical, since it had remote tracking studies of philosophy in prison, where he remained five years, after several robberies of bank-to-hand army. Supported by Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler had supported his thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1993.
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Among his many trials, he had published in January That called heal ? The Lesson from Greta Thunberg, in which he questioned the inability of States and companies to respond to environmental demands, in believing that science should be autonomous in relation to capitalism.
He was also the author of the job is death. Long live the work!, States of shock : stupidity and knowledge in the Twenty-first century and co-author, with Denis Kambouchner and Philippe Meirieu, the school, the digital and the company that comes.
He was due to attend in late August in Arles to a new festival on the relationship of man to nature, “to Act for the living”. His daughter Barbara Stiegler is a philosopher, recognised, teaching political philosophy at the university of Bordeaux-Montaigne.
