Date/Time
Thursday
13 Oct 2016
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens

Event Type
Colloquium

Bernard Stiegler
Head of Centre de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

The digital epoch has destroyed many traditional institutional knowledge practices while transforming and inventing a plethora of others. What is at stake in the current reconfiguration of knowledge in the 21st century? That question must be posed in planetary terms. The digital infrastructure of knowledge is a new spatial, political, and cultural form of reason that must be grasped in its broadest form. The planet itself — fully entangled in the Anthropocene with human technologies, human reason — appears throughout the topologies and topographies of these new infrastructures of knowledge. Sponsored by the Townsend Center, the Dean of Humanities, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society, and the Department of Rhetoric. For information on this and related talks please visit the Rhetoric Department’s events page.