Bernard Stiegler - Da Miséria Simbólica - Volume 1

Of Symbolic Misery - Volume I analyzes the intricate relationships between politics and aesthetics in our hyperindustrial age.

Using extensive commentary on the works of Gilles Deleuze, Sigmund Freud, Gilbert Simondon, and Alain Resnais, Bernard Stiegler outlines a genealogy of the sensible to account for the subordination of desire to the imperatives of capitalist production and its destructive consequences for psychic and collective individuation.

In a context of appropriation of the symbolic by technologies and the consequent impoverishment of experience, aesthetics becomes the battlefield of an essentially economic war; and cinema, as art and technology, a site of resistance.