Full Description
Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler's technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations which form the philosophical foundation of the volume.
Emerging scholars bring critical new reflections to the subject area, while more established academics, researchers and practitioners outline the mutating nature of aesthetics within historical and theoretical frameworks. Not only is interdisciplinarity a prevailing topic at work within this collection, but so too is there a delineation of the mutating, hybrid role inhabited by the arts practitioner - at once engineer, scientist and artist - in the changing landscape of digital cultural production.
Contents
"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
