Introduction
I. Sociopathology of 1968
1. The paradox of the super-ego in the transformations of
capitalism
2. The question of spirit is that of the we
3. Knowledge and the super-ego: towards a new spirit of
capitalism
4. Technicity, hostility to civilization, and the intermittency of
noetic action
5. The crisis of capitalism as ‘ideological disarray’ and as crisis
of spirit after May 1968
6. ‘Artistic critique’ and ‘social critique’, or the jargon of
authenticity
7. The recuperation of the ‘ideas of ’68’ by French capitalism and
the establishment of control society
8. Digression on the meteorological predictions of the Alaskan
Eskimo
9. False problems concerning action
10. Authenticity and singularity: fantasy and the forgetting of
what does not exist
11. Supports and relations of production
II. The automatization of the super-ego and the passage of desire
as original diversion of libidinal energy
12. The historicity of psychoanalytic categories and the illusion
of desire as a natural state
13. From psychopathology to sociopathology
14. Contradictions between Marcuse’s Marxism and his Freudianism in
relation to struggle (eris) against the risk of decomposition.
Moving beyond guilt
15. Technics, super-ego and desublimation
16. Processes of adoption and diversions of libido: Marcuse and the
tendency of libidinal energy to fall
17. ‘Liberation of instincts’, technesis and the passage of desire
Ð the thrust of the knife
18. The murder of the father, the opening of time and guilt, and
‘the instant of my death henceforth always pending’
19. Diversions and decompositions
20. The automatization of the super-ego
21. The opposition of Narcissus and Prometheus
22. Ontology and the reality principle
23. Libidinal ecology
Conclusion
24. Intoxications, prohibitions, cares
25. The struggle for the life of the spirit
26. Consistence of the health and authority of public power: the
freedom of the spirit
Bernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His many books in English include Technics and Time, For a New Critique of Political Economy, The Decadence of Industrial Democracies and Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals.
"Capitalism has lost its spirit, not to mention its mind:destroying the desire it claims to channel, incapable ofestablishing any value beyond narrow calculation, it now needssaving from itself. Revisiting (and revising) Freud and Marcuse,proposing a libidinal ecology to help us avoid thedisaster ahead, Stiegler might just be the man for the job." Martin Crowley, Queens College, University ofCambridge "Stiegler asks not how hyperindustrial capital can be reisstedtoday but whether capitalism can be saved from itself and thePandora's box of dead-end futures that it now generates, fromzombie cultures of mass consumerism to the devastation of thebiosphere. His bold response is to call for and lay out a new'libidinal ecology', a project that will become a key referencepoint for anyone concerned with the central transformativequestions of our time." Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany
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