Saturday, 11 May 2024

Bernard Stiegler's "The Anthropocene and Neganthropology" (Summary)

Bernard Stiegler's Critique of Anthropology and the Neganthropocene
• Stiegler argues that humans are noetic beings who weave psychic secondary retentions on collective secondary retentions.
• Humans individuate themselves by exteriorizing the protentions contained within these retentional funds, hidden as potentials that are concretized and actualized through being transindividuated.
• The Anthropocene era refers to the most recent period of geophysical evolution, where the systemic and toxic character of contemporary organicology comes to light.
• The text questions the meaning of belief when we no longer believe it is possible to change a situation where the 'human factor' is a cosmic element or at least a geo-logical one.
• The data economy has established an industrial and automatized production of protentions, guiding them by remote control or annihilation.
• Stiegler calls for a complete rethinking of the noetic fact, raising questions of practical organology, inventive productions, and a total reinvention of the architecture of the World Wide Web.
• The advent of the thermodynamic machine has led to an epistemic crisis, introducing the question of fire and its pharmacology on both the astrophysical plane and human ecology.
• The organological approach is constitutively situated in time, with its object being becoming and its question being the transformation of becoming into future.
• Digital technology, which completely reconfigures the globalized industrial infrastructure, is the unavoidable path we must follow.
• The Anthropocene is an organological epoch that has generated the organological question itself, which is constituted by its own recognition and the necessity of overcoming itself.
• The question of the trace, of its interiorization and exteriorization, is the first formulation of the pharmacological question.
• The algorithmic governmentality of 24/7 capitalism leads to the formation of artificial crowds, the origin of 'crowd sourcing' or the data economy.

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