Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations and Guide to Referencing ix
5. Introduction: Philosophy – The Repression of Technics 1
6. I: Anthropology – The Invention of the Human
7. 1. Adapt and Smile or Die! Stiegler Among the Darwinists 17
8. 2. The Prehistory of Technology: On the Contribution of Leroi-Gourhan 34
9. 3. Of a Mythical Philosophical Anthropology: The Transcendental and the Empirical in Technics and Time 53
10. 4. Technics and Cerebrality 69
11. II: Aesthetics – The Industrialisation of the Symbolic
12. 5. Technics, or the Fading Away of Aesthetics: The Sensible and the Question of Kant 87
13. 6. Experience of the Industrial Temporal Object 102
14. 7. The Artist and the Amateur, from Misery to Invention 119
15. III: Psychoanalysis – The (De)sublimation of Desire
16. 8. ‘Le Défaut d’origine’: The Prosthetic Constitution of Love and Desire 137
17. 9. The Technical Object of Psychoanalysis 151
18. 10. Desublimation in Education for Democracy 165
19. IV: Politics – The Consumption of Spirit
20. 11. The New Critique of Political Economy 181
21. 12. Stiegler and Foucault: The Politics of Care and Self-Writing 192
22. 13. Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler 208
23. 14. Memories of Inauthenticity: Stiegler and the Lost Spirit of Capitalism 225
24. V: Pharmacology – The Poison that is also a Cure
25. 15. Pharmacology and Critique after Deconstruction 243
26. 16. Techno-pharmaco-genealogy 259
27. Notes on Contributors 276
28. Bibliography 280
29. Index 292