Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler | |
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Bernard Stiegler in 2016 | |
| Born | 1 April 1952 Villebon-sur-Yvette, France |
| Died | 5 August 2020 (aged 68) Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, France |
| Education | |
| Education | Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail EHESS (PhD, 1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacques Derrida |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Deconstruction Post-structuralism |
| Institutions | Institut de recherche et d'innovation (Centre Georges-Pompidou) |
| Doctoral students | Yuk Hui Anaïs Nony |
| Main interests | Philosophy of technology · Individuation |
| Notable ideas | Symbolic misery (mass exclusion from cultural production as a form of generalized impoverishment) |
Bernard Stiegler (French: [bɛʁnaʁ stiɡlɛʁ]; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. He co-founded Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" in 2018. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.
Stiegler has been described as "one of the most influential European philosophers of the 21st century" and an important theorist of the effects of digital technology.