Bernard Stiegler – Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI)

Bernard Stiegler is the director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at the Centre Pompidou. He is a philosopher and has a Doctorate degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was Programme Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, a professor at the UTC (Compiègne Technical University) where he remains an associate professor, Director of the Knowledge, Organization and Technical Systems section which he founded in 1993, Deputy-Director General of the National Audiovisual Institute and then General Manager of the IRCAM.

He is the author of La technique et le temps, a work in six volumes of which three were published by Galilée (La faute d’Epiméthée, La désorientation and Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être). He has also published Passer à l’acte, May, 2003, Aimer, s’aimer, nous aimer. Du 11 septembre au 21 avril (October, 2003), De la misère symbolique 1. L’époque hyperindustrielle (mars 2004), Mécréance et discrédit 1. La décadence des démocraties industrielles (November, 2004), et De la misère symbolique 2. La catastrophe du sensible, April, 2005, Constituer l’Europe 1 et 2, 2005, Mécréance et discrédit 2 et 3, 2006, Des pieds et des mains, 2006, La télécratie contre la démocratie. Lettre ouverte aux représentants politiques (October, 2006), Réenchanter le monde. La valeur esprit contre le populisme industriel (October, 2006), Prendre Soin. De la jeunesse et des générations, Flammarion, 2007, and Economie de l’hypermatériel et psychopouvoir, Mille et une nuits, 2007. The collection of discussions, Philosopher par accident (April, 2004) is an introduction to his way of thinking. These works have been translated into English, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Furthermore, Bernard Stiegler has published over a hundred articles in reviews worldwide and lectures frequently in numerous foreign universities. He has been a reporter for the European Commission, the French Government and UNESCO.

Bernard Stiegler was also the designer and commissioner for the exhibition Mémoires du futur, shown at the Centre Pompidou in 1987. He has led many software development projects for image and sound texts and also, in cognitive technologies. His most recent books are dedicated to developing a theory regarding noetics, with the concept of hypomnesis, and of a theory regarding aesthetics called “organologie générale”, strictly adhering to the artistic and cultural practices, technological and industrial evolutions and with the general theory of the individuation, which he reformulates from Simondon. He founded the association Ars Industrialis in June, 2005 with Georges Collins, Marc Crépon, Catherine Perret and Caroline Stiegler.