Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment--with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. He contends that we are…
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everythi…
Returns to Marx's explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America, showing how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions.
Trois leçons sur la société post-industrielle
A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market e…
