Description: Delivered in Nanjing from 2016 to 2019, these lectures focus on questions concerning the Anthropocene via Marx and Heidegger, the relationship of Platonic metaphysics to the age of 'post-truth', the shift from biopower to neuropower in platform capitalism, and the need for a new, hyper-materialist, epistemology to address these questions.
Brief description: Bernard Stiegler is the director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and a founder of the association Ars Industrialis. He obtained his thesis at the École des haute études en sciences sociales in 1992 under the supervision of Jacques Derrida, and since then has published over thirty books, and taught at many universities around the world. He has also been deputy director of the French Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), director of the musical research institute Ircam and director of the Cultural Development Department at the Pompidou.