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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dr Knox Peden, ARC Research Fellow at University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Stiegler’s Technique<br>
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<b>DATE/TIME:</b> Wednesday, May 28th. 3.30-5.00pm<br>
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<b>PLACE:</b> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 <br>
[How to get to Bankstown Campus] <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank">
http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown</a><br>
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<b>ABSTRACT:</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Bernard Stiegler’s thinking about technics (la technique) occupies a peculiar position on the terrain of contemporary French thought. Vitalist and deconstructionist in apparently equal measure, Stiegler’s thought seems riven by
a fundamental discrepancy. <br>
On the one hand, his philosophical history of technics bestows upon prosthetics a determinant, albeit infinitely temporal, role in the constitution of humanity. On the other, his increasingly strident interventions in cultural politics belie a conviction that
technologies <br>
can be refashioned toward ends that are not entirely their own. Antihumanist in its philosophical principles, his project seems brazenly humanist in its culturalist ends. It’s possible that his current work finds sustenance in the instabilities of his originary
ontology; it’s <br>
also possible that it marks a departure from the insights his Technics and Time project has procured. Whatever the case is, Stiegler’s astonishingly prolific output – seventeen books in five years, as a recent blurb puts it – has become primarily rhetorical
in its contents. <br>
Rhetorical, which is to say, primarily a matter of technique. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">BIOGRAPHY: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/dr-knox-peden-postdoctoral-research-fellow">Dr
Knox Peden</a> is an ARC Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze (Stanford, 2014) and the
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co-editor with Peter Hallward of a two-volume work devoted to the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Verso, 2012). In 2015 Bloomsbury will publish French Philosophy Today: A Historical Introduction. His grappling with Stiegler’s technique forms a part of this effort.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Siobhain O’Leary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Administration Coordinator, Philosophy Research Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of Western Sydney
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Penrith NSW 2751<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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