Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of
Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative
Edited by Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Collective
Edited and translated by Daniel Ross
Like all Open Humanities Press books, Bifurcate is available to download
for free:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/
Bifurcating means: reconstituting a political economy that reconnects
local knowledge and practices with macroeconomic circulation and
rethinks territoriality at its different scales of locality; developing
an economy of contribution on the basis of a contributory income no
longer tied to employment and once again valuing work as a knowledge
activity; overhauling law, and government and corporate accounting, via
economic and social experiments, including in laboratory territories,
and in relation to cooperative, local market economies formed into
networks and linked to international trade; revaluing research from a
long-term perspective, independent of the short-term interests of
political and economic powers; reorienting digital technology in the
service of territories and territorial cooperation.
The collective work that produced this book is based on the claim that
today’s destructive development model is reaching its ultimate limits,
and that its toxicity, which is increasingly massive, manifest and
multidimensional (medical, environmental, mental, epistemological,
economic – accumulating pockets of insolvency, which become veritable
oceans), is generated above all by the fact that the current industrial
economy is based in every sector on an obsolete physical model – a
mechanism that ignores the constraints of locality in biology and the
entropic tendency in reticulated computational information. In these
gravely perilous times, we must bifurcate: there is no alternative.
Editor Bio
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher who is director of the Institut
de recherche et d’innovation, and a doctor of the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has been a program director at the
Collège international de philosophie, senior lecturer at Université de
Compiègne, deputy director general of the Institut National de
l’Audiovisuel, director of IRCAM, and director of the Cultural
Development Department at the Centre Pompidou. He is also president of
Ars Industrialis, an association he founded in 2006, as well as a
distinguished professor of the Advanced Studies Institute of Nanjing,
and visiting professor of the Academy of the Arts of Hangzhou, as well
as a member of the French government’s Conseil national du numérique.
Stiegler has published more than thirty books, all of which situate the
question of technology as the repressed centre of philosophy, and in
particular insofar as it constitutes an artificial, exteriorised memory
that undergoes numerous transformations in the course of human existence.
Editor and Translator Bio
Daniel Ross has translated numerous books by Bernard Stiegler, including
most recently /Nanjing Lectures 2016-2019/ (Open Humanities Press) and
/The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational
Capitalism/ (Polity Press). With David Barison, he is the co-director of
the award-winning documentary about Martin Heidegger, /The Ister/, which
premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was the recipient of the
Prix du Groupement National des Cinémas de Recherche (GNCR) and the Prix
de l’AQCC at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (2004). He is the
author of /Political Anaphylaxis/ (OHP, 2021), /Violent Democracy/
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) and numerous articles and chapters on
the work of Bernard Stiegler.
Bifurcate is published in OHP's CCC2 Irreversibility series, edited by
Tom Cohen and Claire
Colebrook:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility
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