Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler

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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. Cover Contents List of Plates Editors Acknowledgements Digital Studies and Aesthetics: Neganthropology Introduction: ‘Prolegomenon to a Digital Studies Manifesto’ Gerald Moore Part 1 Tertiary Retention Introduction Cormac Deane, Néill O’Dwyer and Michael O’Hara 1 Organology, Grammatization and Exosomatic Memory in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape Néill O’Dwyer 2 A Therapeutics of the Image Michael O’Hara 3 The Control Room Imaginary and the Production of Sovereignty Cormac Deane Part 2 On Pharmacology Introduction Aidan Delaney and Jeanette Doyle 4 Film Studies between Ekphrasis and Quotation Aidan Delaney 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 6 Pokémon UNÉSGO: Grammatization, Gamification and Listification in Contemporary Culture Connell Vaughan Part 3 The Neganthropocene Introduction Noel Fitzpatrick 7 Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland’s Borderland EL Putnam 8 Mischievous Hermes: Digital Hermeneutics and Stiegler’s Therapeutics Noel Fitzpatrick ‘Je suis philosophe’: A Personal Note to Bernard Stiegler Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index