Research On Bernard Stigler’s Aesthetic Thought

Bernard Stiegler is a legendary French philosopher of technology.He constructed a radical critical discourse focusing on the relationship between technology and human through extensive absorption of technological philosophy,phenomenology,deconstruction,Marxism and other ideological resources.In Stigler’s view,discussing the relationship between technology and people is the key to thinking about human existence,and a prescription to solve the pain of human existence today.Stigler has no systematic and complete works of aesthetic theory,and his aesthetic thought is rooted in his philosophy of technology.Instead of discussing aesthetics as the theory of beauty,Stigler returns to the original meaning of aesthetic concept,placing the problem of sensibility under the discussion of modern technology,and thinking about the problem of modern technology affecting human beings.Therefore,Stigler’s aesthetic thought is based on his thinking about human existence.Based on the characteristics of Stigler’s aesthetic thought,this study starts from Stigler’s “What is a human being?” Human beings are not born with survival skills and need to rely on external technology.On this basis,the author combs Stigler’s aesthetic thought from three different angles:technology,sensibility and art.Stigler’s discussion of technology is also the reflection on the relationship between human and technology,which constructs the reflection on the basis of human existence in Stigler’s aesthetic thought.Stigler believes that "the absence of human existence" makes people "surrogate",that is to say,the existence of human needs to be realized and continued by technologies outside life.In this process,the relationship between human and technology is a "different" relationship,that is,the two-way interaction between human and technology.Once this two-way movement is unbalanced,it will have a negative impact on human existence.Today,human beings are facing such a problem,that is,the rapid development of digital technology leads to the suppression of human existence by technology.The main manifestation is the "proletarianization" of human beings,which is different from Marx’s concept and refers to the deprivation of human "knowledge" by technology."Proletarianization" will result in people’s rational,perceptual and material life are gradually under the complete control of external technology.Stigler thought about human perception and technology together and constructed perceptual genealogy.Stigler regarded sensibility as the internal power of human existence.Sensibility is in the loop of desire cycle.To grasp and analyze sensibility,it is necessary to put sensibility under the perspective of "general organology" and analyze sensibility from three levels: Human physiological organ is the place where sensibility occurs,artificial organ is the carrier of sensibility and the intermediary of sensibility sublimation,social organization materializes psychological individual into collective individual through symbolization.Stiegler not only continued the tradition of homogeneity of craftsmanship in Western culture,but also recognized art as the highest form of technology.But it is undeniable that art,as a product of human spiritual culture,has different aspects from other forms of technology,and Stigler places the uniqueness of art under the research perspective of "rétentions tertiaires",art as a special "rétentions tertiaires" can not only carry human aesthetic memory,but also become an important material for individual self-construction.Faced with the question of the existential pain of contemporary technology,Stigler is eager to get answers by exploring the relationship between technology and people.He believes that in order to solve the problem of the relationship between technology and human beings,we must first face up to the dual aspects of technology.Stiegler used the "technology-pharmacy" theory to show that technology is toxic and antidote,and Stiegler proposed sensibility,art,multi-field intersection and other ways to save the crisis of individual existence through the analysis of digital technology.