... of “tertiary protention” and question its place in Stiegler's thought. Finally, I also explain why Stiegler's turn to the figure of the amateur, especially in the third lecture in this issue, is strategic in thinking of deproletarianizing practices. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Bernard Stiegler In my third and final lecture, I consider the conflict opposing Denis Diderot to Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, Count de Caylus, on the faculty of judging works. The contemporary critic Jean-Louis Jam has called this conflict “the quarrel of the amateur.” I examine how...

... of mass media that are dying in a globally and industrially organized regressive movement in which the technical, transitional object becomes monstrous and pathetic), we will encounter a new age of care in which the amateur is the exemplary figure—traversing, as such, the field of contemporary art...

...Bernard Stiegler Throughout the twentieth century, the development of technologies—of what Walter Benjamin calls “mechanical reproducibility”—led to a generalized regression of the psychomotive knowledges that were characteristic of art amateurs. This regression was made possible by a machinic turn...

...Stephen Barker The implications of Bernard Stiegler's critique of the amateur are far-reaching for art, aesthetics, and critical thought. In the three lectures on aesthetics published in this special issue, Stiegler explores those implications and their relation to the amare —the loving...

...Helen Deutsch This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers, Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said’s career-long engagement with Swift took the form of a passionate amateurism that has a claim upon us...

... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Bernard Stiegler aesthetics politics amateur psychic and collective individuation Reference Stiegler Bernard . 2014 . Symbolic Misery, Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial...

.... In “The Proletarianization of Sen- sibility,” Stiegler describes how “[t]hroughout the twentieth century, the development of technologies—of what Walter Benjamin calls ‘mechani- cal reproducibility’—led to a generalized regression of the pyschomotive knowledges that were characteristic of art amateurs” (6). The know...

... of Sexu- ality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Dinshaw, Carolyn. How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Epstein, Mikhail. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto. New York: Blooms- bury, 2012...

... “Big Mini,” the world’s smallest and lightest com- pact camera with a full autofocus function. Digital cameras, such as the Konica model, enabled young people to experiment with photography. The sweeping success of amateur photographers, such as that of Hiromix, who debuted using Konica’s Big...

... him or her to deduce from facts, brilliantly portrayed by Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe's amateur detective in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Dupin acquires familiarity of the crime scene from a copious reading of newspapers and other forms of available intelligence, usually remaining in his...

... authority. This was precisely what John was waiting for. He whipped his horn from the case and assembled it in a flash. He played his version of Johnny Hodges’s famous recording “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” We were all amateurs, of course, but I’d never heard a sound that fat and warm emerge...

..., the speaker and the Graikos are one and the same person. But the poem's speaker observes and describes his own reaction as a Graikos, in that capacity or identity, which is obviously not the only one he possesses. He may also be, for example, a cultured colonial subject or an amateur historian—and he may...

... with here is a lexicon developed by Recep Tayyip Erdog an. The subtitle of Klemperer s book is A Philologist s Notebook. He is a philologist, I am not. Though I attempt on my own to seek out ety- mological traces, the outcome of this effort before you is the work of an amateur though we should...

... that Said was fond of quoting, “A Critic’s Job of Work,” which defines criticism famously as the formal discourse of an amateur, of a lover. Not to follow the question of the erotic here too closely, although someone earlier today—I can’t remem- ber exactly who it was—gave us the imaginary moving...

... important role than his trademark technique of incorporating in- text photographs although in their markedly amateur- ish, exquisite index of the pastness of the past (Sontag 2000: 4), he con- sciously eschewed the quotidian repertoire of visual forms of suffering that have been imposed by mass media...

... that the footage it pieces together was found and derives from dozens of diverse analog sources, including live television, amateur film, and video shot on shaky camcorders. The material, some of which affords glimpses of the unfolding revo- lution caught off guard, is interrogated for nontransparency...

... position is his obser- vation that while intellectual work and academic work might ‘‘feed off one anothertheyarenotthesame thing 28 Said attempts something similar when he argues that there is a differ- ence between the amateur and the professional. The amateur, he writes, is one who considers...

... commodities, infrastructure is the object of no one’s desire, or no one but a few passionate amateurs. It is not artfully illuminated in a shop window for all to see but tucked away out of the usual sight lines, indeed often inaccessible to all but authorized personnel—personnel who (perhaps because...

...-technology. I am an amateur of technology. My fetish image is that of the battle of Jacob and the angel. Jacob is a believer, he meets the angel of God, but in order to remain a free man, he is obliged to do battle” (James Der Derian, ed., The Virilio Reader [Oxford: Blackwell, 1990], 20). In other...