Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler

by Noel Fitzpatrick (Editor), Néill O'Dwyer (Editor), Michael O'Hara (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501381102
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/23/2023
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Noel Fitzpatrick is Head of Research College of Arts and Tourism at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Néill O'Dwyer is a senior research fellow and the principal investigator (PI) of 'Performative Investigations in Extended and Augmented Reality Technologies' (PIX-ART), in the Dept. of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He was formerly an awardee of the prestigious Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Research Fellowship. He specialises in practice-based research in digital art and performance.

Michael O'Hara is Lecturer Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

I warmly recommend this volume. Stiegler's perspective is one of the deepest critique of digital capitalism and, at the same time, one of the strongest proposal for a new kind of technological development, especially in the social and academic fields. The book is not only able to fully represent such a perspective, but it is also a way to improve both Stiegler's perspective and the ongoing research in digital arts.” —Paolo Vignola, Professor of Philosophy of Literature and Literary Theory, Universidad de las Artes, Ecuador

“Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler offers an interesting focus on Stieglerian philosophy, passing through epistemology, politics and the arts. This strong theoretical approach keeps together voices from different authors and perspectives, all of which cover an important lack in the several publications concerning Stiegler's philosophy, that is, aesthetics and the arts. Being this one of the main concerns of the French philosopher, the book offers an important introduction to this field.” —Sara Baranzoni, co-founder of La Deleuziana

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