...Bernard Stiegler The text we publish here is the first chapter of Bernard Stiegler's La Télécratie contre la Démocratie . The broad argument of Stiegler's book (and of this introductory chapter) is that what he terms “telecracy” is ruining democracy by short-circuiting the normal mechanisms...

... and political processes. Following that, “Telecracy against Democracy” is the first chapter of a book with the same title published in 2006 in the lead up to the French presidential elections of 2007. Stiegler argues the need for politicians to address themselves to the current situation as one in which...

... structures, contemporary cultural politics looks to newly forged reassessments of the epoch and its historicity, to critiques of extant limits and rationalities, to concepts of telecracy and communicative capitalism, the anthropocene, postdigitality, media archaeology, targeting, witnessing, haunting...

... of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical . New York : W. W. Norton . Schiller Friedrich . 1982 . On the Aesthetic Education of Man . Oxford : Clarendon . Steigler Bernard Turner Chris . 2010 . “ Telecracy against Democracy .” Cultural Politics 6 ( 2 ): 171...