Freya Häberlein: "A Toxicology of Technics: Epistemology and Automation in Stiegler"
27. May
18:00 Uhr, C40.530
Bernard Stiegler’s axiology of technics is influenced by the Ancient Greek notion of the pharmakon. A pharmacology of technics defines technology as both remedy and poison, based on the original ambiguity apparent in the translation of the term, as pointed out by Jacques Derrida. However, in his overall philosophical project, Stiegler aims to avoid a mere relativism of the value of the technical object. Conferring on Nietzsche, Stiegler is addressing a “pharmacological ill-being,” in which the absence of the attentional form of caretaking leads to what Stiegler calls “automatic nihilism.” This contribution would like to discuss Stiegler’s epistemology of “negentropic caretaking” alongside his rendering of the process of “general automatization” as a process in which the pharmakon itself has become an automaton.
Freya Häberlein is a PhD student at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, and a fellow, 2024–2025, at the Research Institute for Philosophy, Hannover. Her research focuses on the influence of Nietzsche in French philosophy of technology, particularly on the question of tragedy and tragic values. Between 2022–2024 she was also a researcher, certificate student, and scholarship recipient at The New Centre for Research and Practice.
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Nicolas Schneider (nicolas.schneider@leuphana.de)