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17Review: Claudio Celis Bueno, The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism (review)Theory, Culture and Society 35 (7-8): 331-337. 2018.How should we conceptualise the turn to attention as a means of producing surplus value? Claudio Celis Bueno answers this question through a consideration of the attention economy in the context of a rethinking of Marxist political economy. Bueno accounts for the development of the economisation of attention through the concepts of value, labour and time, but also investigates how the shift to attention requires us to rethink the basis of these terms. Using the attention economy as an example, h…Read more
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22From resistance to invention in the politics of the impossible: Bernard Stiegler’s political reading of Maurice BlanchotContemporary Political Theory 18 (1): 43-64. 2019.In Bernard Stiegler’s Automatic Society Volume 1: The Future of Work, ‘the impossible’ and ‘the improbable’ appear as explicit parts of his political project. In his philosophy of technology, the impossible highlights the structural incompleteness that technics imparts to human existence. This article will trace how Stiegler draws on the work of Maurice Blanchot to produce this conjunction between technics and indetermination, and explore its political ramifications. This will show that rather t…Read more
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Ideology and Post-Structuralism after Bernard StieglerJournal of Political Ideologies 22 (1): 92-110. 2016.What is the objective of ideology critique today? A unique answer to this question can be found in the work of Bernard Stiegler: the object of ideology critique is stupidity. Stiegler’s work will be situated with regard to the study of ideology and post-structuralism, reframed as respective versions of a dichotomy between critical and neutral theories, to show how Stiegler’s conception of ideology encompasses both. How he thinks ideology 'after' post-structuralism will be explored through his re…Read more
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12Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economyContemporary Political Theory 1-4. forthcoming.
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Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?Theory and Event 24 (4): 1035-1049. 2021.
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46Life and the Technical Transformation of Différance: Stiegler and the Noopolitics of Becoming Non-InhumanDerrida Today 9 (2): 177-198. 2016.Through a re-articulation of Derridean différance, Bernard Stiegler claims that the human is defined by an originary default that displaces all psychic and social life onto technical supplements. His philosophy of technics re-articulates the logic of the supplement as concerning both human reflexivity and its supports, and the history of the différance of life itself. This has been criticised for reducing Derrida's work to a metaphysics of presence, and for instituting a humanism of the relation…Read more
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12Ideology and Post-structuralism after Bernard StieglerJournal of Political Ideologies 22 (1): 92-110. 2016.What is the objective of ideology critique today? A unique answer to this question can be found in the work of Bernard Stiegler: the object of ideology critique is stupidity. Stiegler’s work will be situated with regard to the study of ideology and post-structuralism, reframed as respective versions of a dichotomy between critical and neutral theories, to show how Stiegler’s conception of ideology encompasses both. How he thinks ideology 'after' post-structuralism will be explored through his re…Read more
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Science and Ideology Revisited: Necessity, Contingency and the Critique of Ideologies in Meillassoux and MalabouTheory and Event 22 (4): 865-890. 2018.
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9Returning to Judgment: Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political TheoryState University of New York Press. 2023.Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.
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17Affinity and antagonism: Structuralism, comparison and transformation in pluralist political ontologyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 45 (1): 27-49. 2019.This article develops a comparative and recursive approach to political ontology by drawing on the ontological turn in anthropology. It claims that if ontological commitments define reality, then the use of ontology by recent pluralist political theorists must undercut pluralism. By charting contemporary anthropology’s rereading of structuralism as part of a plural understanding of ontology, it will be shown that any political ontology places limits on the political, and thus cannot exhaust poli…Read more
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7Above and beyond the market: the family, social reproduction, and conservatism in bernard stiegler’s politics of workAngelaki 26 (6): 68-85. 2021.Assessments of the impact of automation often emphasize the need to “denaturalize” work. To what extent is denaturalization successful in separating proposals regarding the future of work from existing assumptions about its value? This article will explore this question by reading Bernard Stiegler’s politics of work in the context of his understanding of the family. It will demonstrate that while he denaturalizes work he also naturalizes background assumptions regarding its relationship to socia…Read more
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33Politicising the Epokhé: Bernard Stiegler and the Politics of Epochal SuspensionIn Iulian Apostolescu (ed.), The Subject(s) of Phenomenology. Rereading Husserl, Springer. pp. 341-354. 2019.For Husserl, the phenomenological epoché is primarily methodological, allowing access to the structures of transcendental consciousness by way of suspending worldly influence. This chapter will demonstrate how this methodological principle is rethought as political in the work of Bernard Stiegler. For Stiegler the epokhé is both the suspension of existing social systems, and a moment of critical redoubling, where the source of disruption is integrated into a new ‘epoch’. In particular it will be…Read more
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33The limits of culture in political theory: A critique of multiculturalism from the perspective of anthropology’s ontological turnEuropean Journal of Political Theory 20 (2). 2018.Political theorists have developed and refined the concept of culture through much critical discussion with anthropology. This article will deepen this engagement by claiming that political theory...