Bernard Stiegler

media.

And it's an idea that Stiegler wrote a lot about it but which we try and take up for social media and AI images and so we imagine this society which would really be deep into parapictomania.

That is, parapictomania is the pleasure taken in Parapictomania is the pleasure taken in images showing the consumption of energy.

So the best example of parapictomania is watching a car race on television.

The philosopher could not have predicted that in 2026, the platform economy has turned all of us into users of vast, immaterial network infrastructures via digital technologies designed with seamless automatic experience in mind.

How do we solve this primal form of alienation and liberate technical objects when all that is solid has melted into air? Answering this question was the task of the late philosopher Bernard Stiegler, for whom technology was a pharmacon, at once poison and remedy, the very infrastructure that reduces us to passive users being the only available cure.

Since his death in 2020, that task has fallen to a small group of scholars, including the aforementioned Juk Hui, who continue to repurpose Simondon's work for the digital age.

Alas, any attempt to briefly summarise Simondon's thought will be hopelessly reductive.