A Review of Bernard Stiegler’s article “The Proletarianisation of Sensibility”
A Review of Bernard Stiegler’s article “The Proletarianisation of Sensibility” Prepared by Dr Neil Peach ABSTRACT Stiegler’s article “The Proletarianisation of Sensibility” translated by Anne De Boever and published by Duke University in 2017 provides interesting insights into his analysis of the foundations of human sensibility as well as the epochal implications of developments in contemporary art in the 20th century. In essence, Stiegler proposes that there is now a general regime of reproduction [incorporating both work and art] comprising “a new totality of tertiary retentions” and that contemporary artistic sensibility and aesthetics are constituent of a “general organology”. Stiegler’s overall philosophy often refers to the process of proletarianisation as the means through which humans lose knowledge. It can apply to all areas of human activity - work, art, music, day-to-day encounters. It flows from mans’ tendency to employ technics an...
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