Tickets available at: https://neganthropocene.eventbrite.com
Further info: http://front.bc.ca/events/about-the-neganthropocene-and-its-econ omy/
Venue: 303 East 8th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC
We live in the Anthropocene. But is the Anthropocene bearable – that is: viable? Of course not. The Anthropocene is an Entropocene. Bernard Sti egler will show why and how it is necessary and possible to overcome the An thropocene to enter the Neganthropocene – to found an economy based on a ne ganthropic value. Professor Stiegler's lecture is this year's French Schola r Lecture Series from the Consulat général de France à Vancouver in partner ship with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC.
Frenc h philosopher Bernard Stielger is Founder and Director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI) at the Centre George-Pompid ou in Paris. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cultural St udies at Goldsmith College in London\, and a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne\, where he teaches philosophy. Stiegler has lectur ed widely and published over 30 monographs on philosophy\, technology\, dig itization\, capitalism\, and consumer culture. Among his best-known works i n English include his three-volume Technics and Time (Stanford\, 1 998\, 2009\, 2010)\, For a New Critique of Political Economy (Poli ty\, 2010)\, and his three-volume Disbelief and Discredit series ( Polity\, 2011\, 2013\, 2014). His most recent work in French is La Soci été automatique\, 1. L’Avenir du travail (Fayard\, 2015).
The po st-lecture discussion will be moderated and introduced by Mohammad Salemy. A New York-Vancouver-based artist\, critic and curator\, Salemy has been in vestigating Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of technology since 2010. Followi ng the lecture\, he will posit the importance of Stiegler's ideas for think ing about art and cognitive economy in the negentropocene.
This event will be live-streamed on YouTube Live in cooperation with The New Centre f or Research & Practice (http://thenewcent re.org) at: http://youtu.be/qBUKl SHPUR8
This event is:
Hosted by the Department of Art Histor
y\, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) and the Bachelor of Media Studies\, Univer
sity of British Columbia and Western Front
Organized by T’ai Smith\, A
ssociate Professor (AHVA)
Sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute of Adv
anced Studies and the Consulat général de France à Vancouver