Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler

Noel Fitzpatrick is the Head of Research at the College of Arts and Tourism at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. He is regularly invited to speak at, and host, seminars internationally and is visiting lecturer at Saint Lucas University, Antwerp, Belgium. Noel is a member of Ars Industrialis, (Founded by Bernard Stiegler) and is a founding member of the Digital Studies network at the l’institut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He is also the co-editor of the journal in|print. Néill O’Dwyer is an artist and practice-based research fellow at the Arts Technology Research Lab, in the Department of Drama, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a co-editor of The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, Towards the Real (2015). He is a member of the international Digital Studies Network initiated by the Institute of Research and Innovation, at the Pompidou Centre, and he is an associate researcher of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. Michael O’Hara is an artist and a Lecturer in Sculpture at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has been an active researcher with both the Aesthetics Seminar Group and Digital Studies Group for the past six years. His main research interests include developing a phenomenology of digital technologies that critically analyses the materiality of such technologies. Specifically, he is interested in how digital technologies foreground computation as a governing principal that both mediate and cultivate new types of object relations.

“Je suis philosophe”: A personal note to Bernard Stiegler
Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Digital Studies and Aesthetics: Neganthropology
Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges-Pompidou, France) interviewed by Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Introduction: Prolegomenon to a Digital Studies Manifesto
Gerald Moore (Durham University, UK)
I – Tertiary Retention
Introduction
Cormac Deane (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland), Néill O’Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), and Michael O’Hara (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
1. Organology, Grammatisation and Exosomatic Memory in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Néill O’Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
2. A Therapeutics of the Image
Michael O’Hara (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
3. The Control Room Imaginary and the Production of Sovereignty
Cormac Deane (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland)
II – On Pharmacology
Introduction
Aidan Delaney (Middlesex University, UK) and Jeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
4. Film Studies Between Ekphrasis and Quotation
Aidan Delaney (Middlesex University, UK)
5. Thirty Years: An Analysis of the Exhibition Art Post-Internet through the Work of Bernard Stiegler with Reference to Jean-François Lyotard’s Exhibition Les Immatériaux
Jeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
6. Pokémon UNÉSGO: Grammatization, Gamification and Listification in Contemporary Culture
Connell Vaughan (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
III – The Neganthropocene
Introduction
Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
7. Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland’s Borderland
El Putnam (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
8. Mischievous Hermes: Digital Hermeneutics and Stiegler’s Therapeutics
Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index