11. The New Critique of Political Economy

Beistegui, Miguel de

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“…The reason for making this argument is not to dismiss Stiegler's conceptualisation of technology and technics. Clearly Stiegler offers much for geographical research, from his formulation of processes of grammatisation in his critique of capitalism (Stiegler, 2010b), to his theorisation of technological memory through tertiary retentions (Stiegler, 2009) to name just two areas. Rather, by developing an alternative reading a techno-genesis in this paper, the key point is to make space for understanding Simondon's distinct contribution to conceptualising technology and technics as a thinker who is, at times, positioned as a natural ally to Stiegler thought (c.f.…”

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Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis

Keating

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Technologies have been theorised to understand their powers to produce spacetimes – notably through Bernard Stiegler’s reading of technics as constitutive of human ontology. However, less attention has been paid to how technologies shape spacetimes according to their own distinct logics of evolution, the result being a tendency to reduce technological agency to a question of its effects on human being. The first half of the paper elaborates this problem in conversation with geographies of the digital turn. The second half introduces an alternative approach through Gilbert Simondon’s ontogenetic notion of technology characterised by its own logics of evolution – what I term techno-genesis.

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Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis

Keating

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…As such, the influences of technologies on the human psyche (i.e. on intentional consciousness, attention, re-and protentions and on collective identities) accumulate exponentially (Lemmens, 2014;Stiegler et al, 2010). The formation of individual, psychic and collective identities now proceeds via elaborate information networks, imagery and many other innovations (Stiegler et al, 2010, 42-45).…”

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Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based Economy

2023

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In this paper, we carry out a critical analysis of the concept of technology in the current design of the bio-based economy (BBE). Looking at the current status of the BBE, we observe a dominant focus on technological innovation as the principal solution to climatic instability. We take a critical stance towards this “ecomodernist” worldview, addressing its fundamental assumptions, and offer an underarticulated explanation as to why a successful transition toward a sustainable BBE—i.e. one that fully operates within the Earth’s carrying capacity—has not yet been reached. Bernard Stiegler has developed a philosophical perspective on the concept of economy, broadening it to include the human condition through the notion of desire. This theory can help to obtain a more profound understanding of why ecomodernist strategies are dominant today. Stiegler’s theory of the libidinal economy offers an analysis of controlled and exploited human desire as a primary driver behind modern techno-economic structures. Our hypothesis is that a critique of contemporary technofixism as a critique of libidinal economy is a necessary step to take in the discussion around the BBE as a concept, if the BBE is ever to bring about a system that can truly operate within the Earth’s carrying capacity.

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“…This analysis also expounds how immateriality shapes the economy of data and digital memory. Referring to Stiegler (2010), the question of economics is the externalization and exploitation of forms of human memory, of libidinal economies and economies of attention.…”

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A Critical Debate on the Political Economy of Digital Memory

ÖZARSLAN

2022

Galatasaray Üniversitesi İleti-Ş-Im Dergisi

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Digital technologies have transformed the conventions of preserving, recalling, and forgetting the past as they provide new digital tools and platforms to remember, to forget and to collect data for individuals, societies, and corporations. With the convergence of new media, memory gains a global aspect along with its personal and local characteristics and turns into the digitally mediated memory. These technologies enable digital memory to be indexed, archived, circulated, and processed infinitely in cyberspace. Therefore, the advancements in the Web and cloud computing technologies yield new dimensions for memory studies to be discussed from a political economy perspective since digitally mediated memory has some economic, political, societal, and cultural impacts on societies. This study conceptually scrutinizes the commodification processes of digital memory and analyzes its material and immaterial bases from a political economy perspective, and claims that they are fundamentally interwoven. The rare earths which are used to produce technological devices are considered as the material basis. Additionally, major technology corporations using these rare earths, and their data centers are taken as the extensions of its materiality. Digitally archived, managed, and retrieved memory is considered as data, which represent immaterial basis of digital memory. The materiality and immateriality of digital memory are not regarded as independent from the inherent power relations and ideologies of the current data economy. Thus, this study aims to discuss digital memory from a political economy perspective to reveal the flow between its materiality and immateriality and the inherent power relations in the data economy. It also poses the potential challenges, risks, and outcomes we may encounter in such an economic system.

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11. The New Critique of Political Economy

Cited by 9 publications

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Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis

Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis

Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based Economy

A Critical Debate on the Political Economy of Digital Memory

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