Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler

Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stieglerframes 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.

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 Stiegler Noel 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 Manifesto Gerald Moore (Durham University, UK) I - Tertiary Retention Introduction Cormac 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 Tape Néill O'Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2. A Therapeutics of the Image Michael 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 Pharmacology Introduction Aidan Delaney (Middlesex University, UK) and Jeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 4. Film Studies Between Ekphrasis and Quotation Aidan 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 Immatériaux Jeanette Doyle (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 6. Pokémon UNÉSGO: Grammatization, Gamification and Listification in Contemporary Culture Connell Vaughan (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) III - The Neganthropocene Introduction Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 7. Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland's Borderland El Putnam (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 8. Mischievous Hermes: Digital Hermeneutics and Stiegler's Therapeutics Noel Fitzpatrick (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index