Philosophising by Accident

Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher. He is head of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He is also the founder of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, Ecole de Philosophie d’Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. His works include the three-volume series Technics and Time (now out of print in France) translated into English and published by Stanford University Press (1998, 2009, 2011). Philosopher par accident was published in 2004 by Galilée and is now out of print. Benoît Dillet is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. He is co-editor of Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler (Cécile Defaut, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013; paperback).

• Notes on the English TranslationTranslator’s Introduction: Radiographing Philosophy 1 Philosophy and Technics2 Technics as Memory3 Consciousness in the age of industrial temporal objects4 Consciousness, the unconscious and the unscienceAppendix 1 - The Technologisation of Memory (Artpress interview, 2001)Appendix 2 - Becoming the quasi-cause of the accident (interview with B. Dillet, 2014)

Philosophising by Accident provides not only the most accessible introduction to the work of Bernard Stiegler, but perhaps also the most seductive. The interviews brilliantly interweave his re-readings of the history of philosophy and its 'repression' of technics with glimpses into the unique biography of one of the major intellectual figures of the twenty-first century.