Bernard Stiegler

Bart Buseyne studied philosophy and applied philosophy at the universities of Leuven, Hull, and Paris I. He translated several essays by Stiegler into Dutch, mostly in collaboration with Judith Wambacq, with whom he also interviewed Stiegler for De Uil van Minerva. He is affiliated to KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium. Georgios Tsagdis is Lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands and teaches also at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Architectural Association. His essays have been published in various collections and international journals, among which are Parallax (2015), Philosophy Today (2016) and Studia Phaenomenologica (2020). Paul Willemarck is an independent researcher working in France. He is Co-founder of Junction Phenomenology (rudolfboehm.org) and member of Nootechnics Collective.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Invitation of Memory, Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis & Paul Willemarck

Part I. In Memoriam: Bernard Stiegler
1. Noble Neganthropologist: Remembering Bernard Stiegler (1 April 1952 - 5 August 2020), Pieter Lemmens
2. Stiegler, Melancholy, Negativity (Funeral Song for Bernard), Jean-Luc Nancy
3. Just This, Written just Here and just Now, by just This Individual in just This Mood, Daniel Ross

Part II. Complexities: Caring to Believe
4. Care as Invention, Anaïs Nony
5. Against Simplification: The Intermittence of Life, Gerald Moore
6. Stiegler’s Hand: Tertiary Retentions and the Belief of Reason, Paul Willemarck

Part III. Thinking Différance: Life, Technics, Epochality
7. Negentropy and Différance: Stiegler’s Memories of the Future, Georgios Tsagdis
8. Where There is No World and No Epoch: Bernard Stiegler’s Thinking of the Entropocene, Erich Hörl
9. Différance and Epochality: Stiegler’s Tours, Donovan Stewart

Part IV. Creative Organologies: Works of Invention
10. Philosophy through Acting, Bart Buseyne
11. Taking Care of Digital Technologies, Vincent Puig
12. Plaine Commune, Contributive Learning Territory, Maël Montévil
13. Towards a Bifurcation: Internation and Interscience in the 21st Century, Anne Alombert
14. A Schole for the Thunberg Generation, Victor Chaix
15. Another Social Network is possible!, Harry Halpin & Geert Lovink

Part V. Echoes: Individuating Art
17. Mnemotechnics, Echo, and the Discrete Voice, Mischa Twitchin
18. Bernard Stiegler’s Love of Music, Susanna Lindberg

Part VI. An Unfinished Conversation
19. Ontological Difference, Technological Différance and Semantic Difference: The Problem of a Decentered Reconstruction of Philosophy after ‘Deconstruction’, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy

Notes on Contributors