Karakilic, Emrah Ali (2026) Bernard Stiegler on Hope After the Foreclosure of the Future. In: 20th Organization Studies (EGOS) Summer Workshop, 2026-05-27 - 2026-05-30.
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Abstract
For Bernard Stiegler, hope is not an affective mood, optimism, personal disposition or a vague attitude. Hope is a question of i) temporality, ii) technics and iii) politics. This paper firstly offers Stiegler’s conceptual account of hope as a form of protention, grounded in the temporal relation between memory and future anticipations. It secondly looks at of how hyperindustrial technics erode this tension by homogenising secondary retentions and pre-empting protentions, hence producing what Stiegler (2016) calls ‘systemic stupidity’ and foreclosing the future. It finally considers the latest work of Stiegler - The Internation Collective and Bifurcation (ed. Stiegler, 2021) - to offer how hope may re-emerge through practices of transindividuation, rooted in locality: conceptualised as the dynamic and layered milieus where noetic diversity, panser (thinking care-fully) and hence negantrophy may flourish (Alombert, 2022; Bishop, 2022).