The Age of Disruption · Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism by Stiegler, Bernard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Dedication Title page Copyright page Part One: The Epokhē of My Life

1. Disruption: A ‘New Form of Barbarism’

1. The loss of reason 2. From the slums of Temara to the presidency of the Université de technologie de Compiègne 3. From Richard Durn to Jean-Marie Le Pen: primordial narcissism of the I and reason for living 4. A ‘new kind of barbarism’ and algorithmic governmentality 5. Always too late Notes

2. The Absence of Epoch

6. Before the end 7. Negative teleology and end without purpose 8. Epokhē and disruption 9. Epochs and collective protention 10. Disruption and sharing Notes

3. Radicalization and Submission

11. Ὕβρις and aboulia 12. Speed and vanity 13. Retention and disruption 14. Despair and submission 15. What we must not lose 16. Neganthropy 17. Identification, idealization and sublimation in the mutual admiration of the we 18. Individuation, admiration and insubordination Notes

4. Administration of Savagery, Disruption and Barbarism

19. The barbarians attack 20. Nihilism, disruption, madness 21. Noesis and hallucination 22. Outside the law: the epokhē of disruption and domination by chaos 23. Conquest or salvation? Notes

5. Outside the Law: Saint-Michel and the Dragon

24. Anthropology of disruption 25. Neganthropology of disruption 26. Providential disruption and the ‘wall of time’: the reign of dread 27. Φιλία, différance and ὕβρις 28. Absent from every bouquet 29. My prison studies and the epokhē of my life 30. The existential propadeutic of noetic salvation 31. The ‘end of the Book’, ‘Mémoires du futur’ and the ‘change of epoch’ 32. Release from prison: on another madness 33. Filial experience of veridiction 34. The cowardice of optimism and pessimism Notes

Part Two: Madness, Anthropocene, Disruption

6. Who am I? Hauntings, Spirits, Delusions

35. I am Malcolm X 36. Who are we? 37. State of emergency and philosophy 38. Economy and politics 39. Stories of contemporary madness 40. Cultures, expectation, madness Notes

7. Dreams and Nightmares in the Anthropocene

41. Daydreams – or ‘The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk’ 42. ‘All goes ill!’: sleep of reason and waking dreams 43. Dreaming, making, acting – in the Anthropocene and beyond 44. The deliberate exploitation of toxicity and the systemic carelessness that results 45. Everything happens, nothing happens 46. Legal and theoretical vacuums 47. Technologically integrated totalitarianism and madness as neganthropological possibility 48. Madness, reality and truth 49. Hubris and boulēsis 50. Will, disinhibition and denial Notes

8. Morality and Disinhibition in Modern Times

51. The exosomatization of the life of the mind, spiritual life as exosomatization, computational unreason 52. Modern will and disinhibition 53. Disinhibition and discipline as pharmacological consequences of tertiary retention 54. The tragic and ὕβρις 55. On the need to read or reread History of Madness in the twenty-first century 56. The most mad 57. The Modern Age as the ‘propensity for madness’ 58. From Raskolnikov to disruption, via Schumpeter: mercilessly clearing the way for the territories of disinhibition 59. Risks, probabilities and protentions: reflective madness 60. Modernity as a process of reflexive disinhibition 61. Descartes and the Anthropocene, pirates and money, Sloterdijk and ill-being Notes

9. Ordinary Madness, Extraordinary Madnesses

62. On ‘the ordinary madness of power’ 63. Ordinary, extraordinary, morality, imagination 64. The dream of Descartes and the question of powerlessness 65. Hyperpower 66. Madness, δαίμων, ὕβρις, Derrida (right up) against Foucault 67. Dream, structure, history and totality 68. The différance of madness Notes

10. The Dream of Michel Foucault

69. Dreaming and meditating with and according to Foucault 70. From Descartes’ dream to the bifurcation towards the Neganthropocene (the ὕβρις of philosophy itself) 71. The Cartesian sources of disruption 72. Foucault, Asclepius and the death of Socrates 73. Dream and anthropology in Foucault, reader of Binswanger 74. Entropocentrism and neganthropology Notes

Part Three: Demoralization

11. Generation Strauss-Kahn

75. The collapse of the ‘American way of life’ 76. The catastrophic start to the twenty-first century 77. Becoming without future: when the world is without meaning 78. Morale, ‘morals’, moral being: diseconomy and demoralization 79. ‘Morals’, education and credit 80. Politics and moral philosophy 81. For example 82. Economy and function of reason at the turn of the twenty-first century 83. Indiscretions, deceits, falling prey 84. The epidemic of which Strauss-Kahn and his disease are merely symptoms: on moral philosophy 85. Pathogenesis and moral philosophy Notes

12. Thirty-Eight Years Later

86. The political function of dreaming 87. Dreaming together 88. Flowers, pearls, diamonds and the King’s son 89. Politics and interpretation of ὕβρις 90. Worstward Ho 91. Laroxyl and writing 92. The ordeal of the pharmakon as the fall into insignificance 93. Taking notes, consistences and prophets of doom 94. Taking notes, from the birth of θεωρία as the hypomnesic spatialization of ἀνάμνησις to the ‘tags’ of the data economy – via Saint-Michel 95. My circuits are screwed up 96. Detention, retention and protention 97. Suffering Notes

13. Death Drive, Moral Philosophy and Denial

98. The absence of epoch as demoralization 99. Exosomatization as interpretation: on the meaning of ἦθος 100. Αρετή, Sittlichkeit and neganthropological courage 101. Guilt and transvaluation 102. The apprenticeship of life 1: the cosmological dimension of noesis 103. The apprenticeship of life 2: the transformation of the cosmological dimension into universal knowledge 104. Disgust, contempt and despair 105. Idealization, dream, transition 106. The liquidation of Sittlichkeit by the ethics of ‘lifestyles’ Notes

14. Nonconformism, ‘Uncoolness’ and Libido Sciendi at the University

107. Conformists, ‘petits-bourgeois’ and the ‘uncool’ 108. Understanding, reason and disinhibition 109. Disinhibition as the revolutionary power of the bourgeoisie, proletarianization as demoralization, the new prospects opened up by the general intellect, and the question of entropy 110. Transvaluation without concessions 111. Organology of exemplarity 112. The pleasure principle, the reality principle and the drives in capitalism, according to Marcuse, Dostaler and Maris 113. The market as catalyst of the death drive and Keynes’ dream 114. Collective suicide in the face of what capitalism no longer succeeds in containing, and the question of investment 115. ‘To think otherwise’: it’s always about Keynes’ dream Notes

15. The Wounds of Truth: Panic, Cowardice, Courage

116. A reminder concerning questions of denial and disavowal 117. Knowledge, thermodynamics, philosophy and economy 118. State of emergency and splitting: courage, object of moral philosophy in the twenty-first century 119. Muddying the waters: denial, regression, democracy 120. The powers that be in the face of the parrhesiasts of our time 121. Pharmacology of democracy 122. Ethical quagmires, suffocations, theoretical vacuums 123. Denial and disavowal 124. Not wanting to know: despair 125. Denial and protention: the bifurcation to come 126. Calculation and meditation 127. Reading Heidegger in the twenty-first century Notes

Conclusion: Let’s Make a Dream

128. ‘Universal folly’, noetic dreams and τέχνη 129. The folly of the cross, and the dream according to Foucault in 1954 130. The madness of capitalism 131. One step forward, two steps back: accelerationism and its denial 132. Psychotic capitalism 133. The conversion to come 134. The onrush into the computational 135. Creating a miracle: despair, salvation, fidelity 136. Denial and the obsolescence of man, according to Günther Anders 137. Conversion as the taking place of locality 138. Dragons and serpents Notes

A Conversation about Christianity

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