The Age of Disruption by Bernard Stiegler

Author:Bernard Stiegler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Here, a very difficult question arises: what meaning should be accorded to the expressions ‘moral being’ and ‘be improved’?35 And from what, in political societies, and in their ‘morale’, stems, not ‘morals’ – which designates a specific, bourgeois epoch of ‘morality’ – but the mores and virtues constituting moral philosophy, which proposes rules for retentions, contentions and protentions that allow these fundamental dynamic factors of noesis that are relations to life and death to be saved and economized? Such an economy is indispensable because, when these relations de-compose, that is, in Freud’s sense, diseconomize, these dynamic factors become outright powers of destruction.

Such a diseconomy, leading to such a demoralization, is systemically and systematically produced with the exasperation of the drives in which drive-based consumerist capitalism consists. The latter is characterized by neoconservative disinhibition, which replaces public power with marketing and thus realizes the functional and systemic arrangement of the drives of consumers and the drives of speculators – of which Strauss-Kahn is a kind of logical and pathological extension.

It is remarkable that it was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Lionel Jospin’s minister of economics and finance, who, in France, installed the stock-option system, which structurally binds the interests of top corporate management to those of shareholder capital, itself completely subject to the speculative capital born of ‘financialization’ in the wake of the ‘conservative revolution’ – in the name of a pseudo-‘modernity’ of the left that Valls now less elegantly reclaims.

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