What is Called Caring?, Vol.1: The Immense Regression

In The Immense Regression, the first volume of his two-part philosophical opus What Is Called Caring?, Bernard Stiegler returns to the existential question of care as the most urgent task of thinking in the Anthropocene. Masterfully translated by his longtime friend and collaborator Daniel Ross, this is Stiegler at his most provocative, timely, and necessary.

Bernard Stiegler(1952–2020) was a philosopher, founder of the Ars Industrialis group and the online school pharmakon.fr, and director of the Institute for Research and Innovation, which he created within the Centre Pompidou. His research focused on social, political, economic, epistemological, and psychological changes caused by technological and scientific development linked to the “digital revolution.” He was the author of numerous works and considered one of the most influential European philosophers of the twenty-first century.

Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University. He is the author of Violent Democracy (2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis (2021), and has translated many books by Bernard Stiegler into English. He is also the co-director of the prize-winning film The Ister (2004).