The National Front and Ultraliberalism (Extract from Pharmacologie du Front National, 2013)

Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) was a French philosopher. He was a director at the Collège international de philosophie and a professor at the Université de Technologie at Compiègne. He was the founder and head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation at the Centre Pompidou, founder of the Ars Industrialis association (which became the Association des Amis de la Génération Thunberg), and also founder of the Pharmakon.fr philosophy school. He was the author of over thirty books, beginning with La technique et le temps 1. La faute d’Épiméthée (1994) and ending with two volumes of Qu'appelle-t-on panser? (2018, 2020) and the collective volume written with the Internation Collective and published as Bifurquer. “Il n'y a pas d'alternative” (2020).

Daniel Ross is the author of Violent Democracy (2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps towards a Metacosmics (2021). He has translated a dozen books by Bernard Stiegler, most recently the collective work composed and edited by Stiegler and the Internation Collective, entitled Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative (2021). He is also the codirector of the prize-winning film The Ister (2004).