負人類世

by Bernard Stiegler, 貝爾納・斯蒂格勒, 陳璽任 (Translator)

人類社會已超出了各項環境指標的臨界點，迫使地球生物群系陷入危機，後真相（post-truth）政權更肆意否認氣象變遷的真實性（將其描述為假新聞）。矽谷的科技新貴抓準了能夠影響消費者選擇與記憶的商業因素，在基因編輯與金融浪潮之下所產生的社會認知分裂之間，警示著人類滅絕已迫在眉睫的呼聲被掩蓋了，人類世（Anthropocene）論述所關注的各種毒素與思想麻藥也被人們置之腦後。貝爾納・斯蒂格勒在這部跨時代著作中向著這個死胡同打響了第一聲炮，試圖超越熵增的絕望漩渦、超越不斷助長此漩渦的「末人」社會與其被剝奪的自我記憶能力。

斯蒂格勒從對抗人類世的「平庸」中開闢出一條全新的陣線，一套以擺脫這個氣候混亂的時代所帶來的，超越虛無主義實現的策略。斯蒂格勒以新的熵與負熵思想為基礎，對哲學、經濟、人類學和政治上的種種概念進行更新，並透過此部著作與眾多哲學大家進行思辨，其中包括懷德海、德希達、西蒙東、斯洛特戴克、馬克思、布萊頓等。從影視、自動化、神經技術、平台式資本主義到政府與恐怖主義的數位化，各項對現今世界局勢無比重要的科技議題皆在此得到卓越的解析。無論讀者對人類世感到有所興趣亦或是抱著懷疑，此書都將給予積極面向未來的回答。

Genres: Philosophy

496 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2021

About the author

Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is co-founder of the political group Ars Industrialis. Stanford University Press has published the first two volumes of Technics and Time, The Fault of Epimetheus (1998) and Disorientation (2008), as well as his Acting Out (2008) and Taking Care of Youth and the Generations (2010).

Reviews

[Jay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full of jargon, references to the author's other books, and structured in such a way I found it almost unreadable.

[Jiv Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

he’s right

[Hazel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very important text. It effectively explains the entropic nihilism of our times, and its uniquety in our anthropological history. I hope we (as a species) can apply the principles of negentropy before we fall into complete self destruction.