Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler

Noel Fitzpatrick is the Head of Research at the College of Arts and Tourism at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. He is regularly invited to speak at, and host, seminars internationally and is visiting lecturer at Saint Lucas University, Antwerp, Belgium. Noel is a member of Ars Industrialis, (Founded by Bernard Stiegler) and is a founding member of the Digital Studies network at the l’institut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He is also the co-editor of the journal in|print. Néill O’Dwyer is an artist and practice-based research fellow at the Arts Technology Research Lab, in the Department of Drama, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a co-editor of The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, Towards the Real (2015). He is a member of the international Digital Studies Network initiated by the Institute of Research and Innovation, at the Pompidou Centre, and he is an associate researcher of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media.Michael O’Hara is an artist and a Lecturer in Sculpture at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has been an active researcher with both the Aesthetics Seminar Group and Digital Studies Group for the past six years. His main research interests include developing a phenomenology of digital technologies that critically analyses the materiality of such technologies. Specifically, he is interested in how digital technologies foreground computation as a governing principal that both mediate and cultivate new types of object relations.

• “Je suis philosophe”: A personal note to Bernard StieglerNoel 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 ManifestoGerald Moore (Durham University, UK)I – Tertiary RetentionIntroductionCormac 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 TapeNéill O’Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)2. A Therapeutics of the ImageMichael 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 PharmacologyIntroductionAidan Delaney (Middlesex University, UK) and Jeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)4. Film Studies Between Ekphrasis and QuotationAidan 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 ImmatériauxJeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)6. Pokémon UNÉSGO: Grammatization, Gamification and Listification in Contemporary CultureConnell Vaughan (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)III – The NeganthropoceneIntroductionNoel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 7. Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland’s BorderlandEl Putnam (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)8. Mischievous Hermes: Digital Hermeneutics and Stiegler’s TherapeuticsNoel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)Notes on ContributorsBibliography Index

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.