The International College of Philosophy announced Thursday August 6 the death of Bernard Stiegler, at the age of 68.
Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI), created in 2005 at the Center Pompidou to imagine the changes in cultural practices brought about by digital technologies, the philosopher had focused his thinking on digital technology and its social consequences.
Bernard Stiegler had studied philosophy at a distance during a five-year stay in prison, following a conviction for several armed bank robberies. Supported by Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler defended a thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1993.
Bernard Stiegler was notably a professor at the Technological University of Compiègne, and director of cultural development at the Center Pompidou. He was to participate at the end of August in Arles in a new festival on the relationship of man to nature, “ Agir pour le vivant ”, with many other philosophical figures. Bernard Stiegler was married and the father of four children.