Seminar Series on Philosophy - Crisis and Critique II
Guest: Emre Şan
“Getting Out of the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler's Analysis of Contemporary Crisis”
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler interprets the Anthropocene as a period of intense entropy production in his latest book, Bifurquer, which he co-wrote with the Internation collective. In the Anthropocene, human has become an entropy factor. The Anthropocene refers to the decrease in energy, the loss of biodiversity, the destruction of cultural and social diversity, and an increase in entropy in the framework of the reduction of thought to computational and algorithmic rationality. In this context, we will discuss the endless innovation model on which techno-industrial societies are based and the ways of struggle proposed by Stiegler's philosophy of technology.
Emre Şan received his bachelor’s degree from Galatasaray University, and completed his master’s degree and doctorate at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Pursuing a post-doctoral research at École Normale Supérieur following his PhD, Emre Şan’s book on transcendence as a phenomenological problem was published with a preface by Renaud Barbaras (Paris, Mimesis, 2012). The author has published articles in national and international journals and book series, in Turkish, French, English and Spanish, as well as working as an editor in publications on Contemporary French Philosophy. He has been serving as a member of the editorial board of the periodical Cogito, and was awarded the Prix Mercier, presented biennially by L’Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Emre Şan is currently an Associate Professor at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University.
* This seminar is for free. Participation is limited to 120 people and the entrance invitations can be obtained 1 hour before the event from Akbank Sanat Info Desk. Events will be held in Turkish.