Bank-robber Bernard Stiegler has in the later part of his life succesfully engaged with philosophy and has elaborated through his work one of the sharpest critiques of modern life and technology. He recently passed away, leaving an important legacy for us to unpack. Leiden University organized a symposium in his memory on the 3rd and 4th of Decembere 2020 in which several thinkers come together to reflect upon his work and the political horizon it sketches.
Given the pandemic circumstances, the conference takes place online. Unfortunately, the stream is uniquely accessible through the Microsoft Teams platform. Given the unacceptable incompatibility of the format and the content, lag organizes a re-stream of the friday event in a way it finds more appropriate.
You can follow the conference on https://leftover.puscii.nl/ , from 14h to 19h. Perhaps an informal discussion will follow but feel free to use the radio chat for sharing thoughts and questions during the talks.

Conference page: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2020/12/lccp-symposium-memory-for-the-future-thinking-with-bernard-stiegler

Friday program:

14:00-15:00

Jean-Luc Nancy: “Stiegler, mélancolie et négativité”
Erich Hörl: “A Thinking of Suspension”

15:15-16:15

Antoinette Rouvroy: “Postscript on Automatic Society”
Erik Bordeleau: “The Cosmo-Financial Pharmakon: Tending techniques for (non)scalable localities”

16:30-17:30

Jan Masschelein: “School as ‘otium of the people’: the letter… and the voice?”
Paul Willemarck: “Necessary default and tertiary retention”

17:45-18:45

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy: Jean-Hugues Barthélémy: “Ontological Difference, Technological Differance and Semantic Difference. The Problem of decentered Reconstruction of Philosophy after ‘Deconstruction’”
Georgios Tsagdis: “Negentropy after Stiegler”

18:45-19:00

Susanna Lindberg: Closing Remarks