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<p class="MsoNormal">Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce
the publication of Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative<br>
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Edited by Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Collective<br>
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Edited and translated by Daniel Ross<br>
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Like all Open Humanities Press books, Bifurcate is available to
download for free: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/</a><br>
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<p>Bifurcating means: reconstituting a political economy that
reconnects local knowledge and practices with macroeconomic
circulation and rethinks territoriality at its different scales of
locality; developing an economy of contribution on the basis of a
contributory income no longer tied to employment and once again
valuing work as a knowledge activity; overhauling law, and
government and corporate accounting, via economic and social
experiments, including in laboratory territories, and in relation
to cooperative, local market economies formed into networks and
linked to international trade; revaluing research from a long-term
perspective, independent of the short-term interests of political
and economic powers; reorienting digital technology in the service
of territories and territorial cooperation.</p>
<p>The collective work that produced this book is based on the claim
that today’s destructive development model is reaching its
ultimate limits, and that its toxicity, which is increasingly
massive, manifest and multidimensional (medical, environmental,
mental, epistemological, economic – accumulating pockets of
insolvency, which become veritable oceans), is generated above all
by the fact that the current industrial economy is based in every
sector on an obsolete physical model – a mechanism that ignores
the constraints of locality in biology and the entropic tendency
in reticulated computational information. In these gravely
perilous times, we must bifurcate: there is no alternative. </p>
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<p>Editor Bio <br>
</p>
<p>Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher who is director of the
Institut de recherche et d’innovation, and a doctor of the Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has been a program
director at the Collège international de philosophie, senior
lecturer at Université de Compiègne, deputy director general of
the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, director of IRCAM, and
director of the Cultural Development Department at the Centre
Pompidou. He is also president of Ars Industrialis, an
association he founded in 2006, as well as a distinguished
professor of the Advanced Studies Institute of Nanjing, and
visiting professor of the Academy of the Arts of Hangzhou, as
well as a member of the French government’s Conseil national du
numérique. Stiegler has published more than thirty books, all of
which situate the question of technology as the repressed centre
of philosophy, and in particular insofar as it constitutes an
artificial, exteriorised memory that undergoes numerous
transformations in the course of human existence. </p>
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<p>Editor and Translator Bio <br>
</p>
<p>Daniel Ross has translated numerous books by Bernard Stiegler,
including most recently <em>Nanjing Lectures 2016-2019</em>
(Open Humanities Press) and <em>The Age of Disruption:
Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism</em>
(Polity Press). With David Barison, he is the co-director of the
award-winning documentary about Martin Heidegger, <em>The Ister</em>,
which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was the
recipient of the Prix du Groupement National des Cinémas de
Recherche (GNCR) and the Prix de l’AQCC at the Festival du
Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (2004). He is the author of <em>Political
Anaphylaxis</em> (OHP, 2021), <em>Violent Democracy</em>
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) and numerous articles and
chapters on the work of Bernard Stiegler.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bifurcate is published in
OHP's CCC2 Irreversibility series, edited by Tom Cohen and
Claire Colebrook:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility</a></span></p>
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