On the Use and Misuse of Deleuze and Guattari’s Concepts in Bernard Stiegler’s Philosophy

Joff P. N. Bradley; Mateo Belgrano (trad.)

doi:10.46553/tab.22.2023.p8-39

Authors

Joff P. N. Bradley Teikyo University
Mateo Belgrano (trad.) Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.22.2023.p8-39

Keywords:

Deleuze, Guattari, Stiegler, control societies, technics, post-media

Abstract

In my view, Bernard Stiegler continues Félix Guattari’s exploration of the post-media era ushered in by the digital revolution. In his way, Stiegler focuses on the psychological and societal effects of this revolution, such as attention deficit disorder and intelligence decline, which could not be fully anticipated by Guattari. Stiegler’s philosophy updates Deleuze and Guattari’s work on voluntary servitude and by combining his concepts with Deleuze and Guattari’s, he contributes a new form of post-media thought in the Anthropocene, challenging nihilistic interpretations. Guattari’s three ecologies thesis is relevant to Stiegler’s philosophy but he rejects the “resistance” and advocates invention and the creation of therapeutic tools, proffering the concept of bifurcation in the context of the Anthropocene, as a new concept of transformation. Stiegler’s work also contributes to updating Deleuze’s Marxism, reapplying concepts such as proletarianization, immaterial labor, the culture industry, and the critique of marketing in the era of computational capitalism, and his work prompts a reassessment of reason in the face of calculation's dominance in a post-truth age. All in all, Stiegler's philosophy is consistent with the immanent, atheist, and this-worldly perspective of Deleuze and Guattari.

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Author Biography

Joff P. N. Bradley, Teikyo University

Joff P. N. Bradley es catedrático de Filosofía e Inglés en la Facultad y Escuela de Posgrado de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad Teikyo de Tokio (Japón). Joff ha sido profesor visitante en la Jamia Millia Islamia (Universidad) de Delhi e investigador visitante en la Universidad Kyung Hee de Seúl. Joff también ha sido profesor visitante en la Universidad de Nanterre en 2022, en la Universidad de Durham en el Reino Unido en 2022, y en la Universidad Nacional de San Martín en Argentina en 2023. Es vicepresidente de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios sobre Japón y miembro del consejo asesor de The International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia, además de formar parte del consejo asesor del Deleuze and Guattari Collective de la India. Joff es coautor de A Pedagogy of Cinema y coeditor de: Deleuze and Buddhism; Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia; Educational Philosophy and New French Thought; Principles of Transversality, Bringing Forth a World; Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education I. Ha publicado Thinking with Animation en 2021, Schizoanalysis and Asia en 2022, y Schizoanalysis and Postmedia en 2023. Sus nuevos proyectos se titulan provisionalmente 1) Critical Post-Media Studies in Korea; 2) Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education II; 3) Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education III; 4) Critical essays on Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technology, Education; 5) Bernard Stiegler and Philosophy: Interviews.

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