Stiegler's automaton and artisanal mode of learning

• Published in: Educational philosophy and theory Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 489 - 501
• Main Author: Thorat, Santosh Jaising
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 16.04.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Architectural Education; Architectural history; architecture; Artisans; Bernard Stiegler; Creative Thinking; Crises; digital; Digitization; Education; Educational Philosophy; History; Identity formation; Imagination; Information Technology; Intelligence; Learning; Learning Processes; neganthropocene; pharmakon; Philosophy; Proletarianization; Risk; transitional space
• DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.1938543
• ISSN: 0013-1857

In Stieglerian fashion, this paper is concerned with both the loss and the re-creation of knowledge in the field of architecture. The student of architecture must be the one who learns new tools and new forms of knowledge and this has profound implications and applicability for the philosophy of education as it is a question of the recuperation of architecture with negentropic tools. Why? In the realm of the digital, it is the case that architectural student is at risk of dis-individuation, the loss of knowledge of such. Therefore, the paper concerns itself with questions of maturity, critical intelligence, trans-individuation, the crisis of noetic being, the artisanal mode of learning and finally the proletarianization of the faculties. It is concerned with the reclamation of noetic space and the search for negentropic tools. This paper is thus pertinent to the philosophy of education because it pertains to the act of creation, the question of imagination and to the loss of thinking as such. Focusing on the history of architecture it demonstrates the loss of knowledge in the history of architecture and shows this has clear implications for the philosophy of education, which is precisely concerned with the nurturing and maturing of the thinking subject. The crisis in the proletarianization of the faculties in architecture pinpoints the role of the artisan's mode of learning and its crisis brought by the digitisation of architecture. The conclusion shows that Stiegler's philosophy of the pharmakon is appropriate to understand this movement as it points to new and embraces new modes of learning in the present.