Bernard Stiegler (French: [stiɡlɛʁ]; born 1 April 1952) is a French philosopher. He is head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He is also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus - wikipedia 
Image by David Barison/Daniel Ross 2004, from the film The Ister
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# Influences and themes
Key themes are technology, time, individuation, consumerism, consumer capitalism, technological convergence, digitization (digital revolution), Americanization, education and the future of politics and human society.
Stiegler's work is influenced by, among others, Sigmund Freud, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Valéry, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida - wikipedia
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