theory BERNARD STIEGLER 

how can philosophy address the limits of growth, an ecological apocalypse, digitization, and cultural decline? the end of the world is in sight. we’re at a breaking point where science, technology, and knowledge need to unite and create new social models

interview by JOHN JEFFERSON SELVE
portrait by JONAS UNGER 

JOHN JEFFERSON SELVE — First of all, can you tell us about your relation to this place? We’re in Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, in the middle of the countryside, a magnificent place in the center of France.
BERNARD STIEGLER — Everything here is beautiful. And the light of the old flour mill, an industrial building put up in the 1950s with big bay windows… It’s now a housing block whose three stories all have views over the trees, the meadows, and the bief — the millstream that once powered the turbine and, before that, the waterwheel. You can…