Benoît Dillet
Biographic Data
| ID | 281409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benoît Dillet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benoît |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillet |
| SIGNATURE | DILLET B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0992-8548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
General Technology for a Multitude of Worlds: Towards a Non-dogmatic Philosophy of Technology
In this response to Simon Mills’ ‘General Technology, Judgement, and the Optative: Constructing the Technological Transcendental in Gilbert Simondon’, we engage with and contribute to the recent scholarship on transcendental perspectives in philosophy of technology. Reading Simondon alongside Stiegler, we argue that Stiegler’s atranscendental philosophy is often dismissed by a universalizing tendency that risks dogmatism. Drawing on Bataille’s ge…
The shame of the world in ordinary climate politics
Studies in the recent turn to emotions and affects in environmental politics have mostly focused on anxiety, guilt, and grief. I make the case for shame as an unaccounted, and potentially mobilising, force in climate change politics. The argument proceeds in three steps. I first look at individual forms of shame and their manifestation in ordinary climate politics: shame as ‘green guilt’ and shaming as a political tool. Then I examine in more det…
Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis
In the last few years, research studies and opinion pieces have tried to account for the new polarisation and dealignment of US politics after Trump and the post-Brexit UK politics. It is now well-established both by academic research and by Facebook’s own research that Facebook leads to more polarisation in its users’ political views, but rhetorical analysis has not yet accounted for the role played by algorithms in political communication and p…
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene
Questioning New Materialisms: An Introduction
New materialists have challenged our thinking about matter in important and meaningful ways. Building a critique of the work of Diana Coole, Samantha Frost, and Jane Bennett, this article introduces a special section which challenges the direction of their work in a constructive manner. We provide a four-fold critical appraisal here: of the historical, posthumanist, technological and emancipatory facets of the new materialisms. Our central claim …
For a Critique of Noology
People talk about intellectuals abdicating their responsibility, but how are they supposed to express themselves in some all-purpose medium that’s an offence to all thinking?Gilles Deleuze, Negotia
Proletarianization, Deproletarianization, and the Rise of the Amateur
In this article, I present the three forms of proletarianization found in Bernard Stiegler's work: the proletarianization of the producer, the proletarianization of the consumer, and generalized proletarianization. In the lectures included in this special issue, Stiegler refers to the proletarianization of sensibility, which belongs to this last form of proletarianization. I attempt to contextualize this new work in relation to Stiegler's past wo…
What is Poststructuralism
In this article, I discuss the vitality and the limits of the poststructural archive. I argue against the temptation to essentialise poststructuralism or define its 'ontology'; instead, I present some of the avenues that can be taken to further its theoretical practice. With Trump and the rise of 'post-truth' politics, poststructural political thought has recently come back to the centre of political debate. By using Pierre Macherey and François …
We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet
This book is not an introduction to the emerging debate on accelerationism that has recently been taking place in fields such as continental philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, and politics (Mackay and Avanessian 2014; Moreno 2013; Shaviro 2013; Wark 2013) but a discussion on the historical emergence of accelerationist political themes together with accelerationism’s dangers and dead ends. I want to assess two things in this review: the coheren…
The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it’s achieved and where it’s going GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641222','ISBN:9780748653690','ISBN:9780748653713']); Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically …
Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
What Is Called Thinking: When Deleuze Walks Along Heideggerian Paths
When on the last page of What Is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari (1995: 218) claim that philosophy needs a non-philosophy, this statement is the result of a long engagement with the problem of thinking in society. It is this engagement that we intend to reconstruct in this article. By developing an original definition of thinking after Heidegger, Deleuze is able to claim that philosophy is not the only ‘thinking’ discipline. Our point of depart…
Questioning New Materialisms: An Introduction
New materialists have challenged our thinking about matter in important and meaningful ways. Building a critique of the work of Diana Coole, Samantha Frost, and Jane Bennett, this article introduces a special section which challenges the direction of their work in a constructive manner. We provide a four-fold critical appraisal here: of the historical, posthumanist, technological and emancipatory facets of the new materialisms. Our central claim …
What is Poststructuralism
In this article, I discuss the vitality and the limits of the poststructural archive. I argue against the temptation to essentialise poststructuralism or define its 'ontology'; instead, I present some of the avenues that can be taken to further its theoretical practice. With Trump and the rise of 'post-truth' politics, poststructural political thought has recently come back to the centre of political debate. By using Pierre Macherey and François …
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene
Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis
In the last few years, research studies and opinion pieces have tried to account for the new polarisation and dealignment of US politics after Trump and the post-Brexit UK politics. It is now well-established both by academic research and by Facebook’s own research that Facebook leads to more polarisation in its users’ political views, but rhetorical analysis has not yet accounted for the role played by algorithms in political communication and p…
Proletarianization, Deproletarianization, and the Rise of the Amateur
In this article, I present the three forms of proletarianization found in Bernard Stiegler's work: the proletarianization of the producer, the proletarianization of the consumer, and generalized proletarianization. In the lectures included in this special issue, Stiegler refers to the proletarianization of sensibility, which belongs to this last form of proletarianization. I attempt to contextualize this new work in relation to Stiegler's past wo…
For a Critique of Noology
People talk about intellectuals abdicating their responsibility, but how are they supposed to express themselves in some all-purpose medium that’s an offence to all thinking?Gilles Deleuze, Negotia
We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet
This book is not an introduction to the emerging debate on accelerationism that has recently been taking place in fields such as continental philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, and politics (Mackay and Avanessian 2014; Moreno 2013; Shaviro 2013; Wark 2013) but a discussion on the historical emergence of accelerationist political themes together with accelerationism’s dangers and dead ends. I want to assess two things in this review: the coheren…
The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it’s achieved and where it’s going GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641222','ISBN:9780748653690','ISBN:9780748653713']); Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically …
Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
What Is Called Thinking: When Deleuze Walks Along Heideggerian Paths
When on the last page of What Is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari (1995: 218) claim that philosophy needs a non-philosophy, this statement is the result of a long engagement with the problem of thinking in society. It is this engagement that we intend to reconstruct in this article. By developing an original definition of thinking after Heidegger, Deleuze is able to claim that philosophy is not the only ‘thinking’ discipline. Our point of depart…
We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet
This book is not an introduction to the emerging debate on accelerationism that has recently been taking place in fields such as continental philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, and politics (Mackay and Avanessian 2014; Moreno 2013; Shaviro 2013; Wark 2013) but a discussion on the historical emergence of accelerationist political themes together with accelerationism’s dangers and dead ends. I want to assess two things in this review: the coheren…
For a Critique of Noology
People talk about intellectuals abdicating their responsibility, but how are they supposed to express themselves in some all-purpose medium that’s an offence to all thinking?Gilles Deleuze, Negotia
Proletarianization, Deproletarianization, and the Rise of the Amateur
In this article, I present the three forms of proletarianization found in Bernard Stiegler's work: the proletarianization of the producer, the proletarianization of the consumer, and generalized proletarianization. In the lectures included in this special issue, Stiegler refers to the proletarianization of sensibility, which belongs to this last form of proletarianization. I attempt to contextualize this new work in relation to Stiegler's past wo…
What is Poststructuralism
In this article, I discuss the vitality and the limits of the poststructural archive. I argue against the temptation to essentialise poststructuralism or define its 'ontology'; instead, I present some of the avenues that can be taken to further its theoretical practice. With Trump and the rise of 'post-truth' politics, poststructural political thought has recently come back to the centre of political debate. By using Pierre Macherey and François …
Questioning New Materialisms: An Introduction
New materialists have challenged our thinking about matter in important and meaningful ways. Building a critique of the work of Diana Coole, Samantha Frost, and Jane Bennett, this article introduces a special section which challenges the direction of their work in a constructive manner. We provide a four-fold critical appraisal here: of the historical, posthumanist, technological and emancipatory facets of the new materialisms. Our central claim …
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene
Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis
In the last few years, research studies and opinion pieces have tried to account for the new polarisation and dealignment of US politics after Trump and the post-Brexit UK politics. It is now well-established both by academic research and by Facebook’s own research that Facebook leads to more polarisation in its users’ political views, but rhetorical analysis has not yet accounted for the role played by algorithms in political communication and p…
The shame of the world in ordinary climate politics
Studies in the recent turn to emotions and affects in environmental politics have mostly focused on anxiety, guilt, and grief. I make the case for shame as an unaccounted, and potentially mobilising, force in climate change politics. The argument proceeds in three steps. I first look at individual forms of shame and their manifestation in ordinary climate politics: shame as ‘green guilt’ and shaming as a political tool. Then I examine in more det…
General Technology for a Multitude of Worlds: Towards a Non-dogmatic Philosophy of Technology
In this response to Simon Mills’ ‘General Technology, Judgement, and the Optative: Constructing the Technological Transcendental in Gilbert Simondon’, we engage with and contribute to the recent scholarship on transcendental perspectives in philosophy of technology. Reading Simondon alongside Stiegler, we argue that Stiegler’s atranscendental philosophy is often dismissed by a universalizing tendency that risks dogmatism. Drawing on Bataille’s ge…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works)