Planned and published by the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, with the editorial and executive team convened by ICAST.

The lectures given by Bernard Stiegler at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou from 2015 to 2019 are reflective of his longstanding concern with the role of the artist in society in general and with the undermining of that role by the economic war that characterizes contemporary society in particular. These lectures represent the final decade of Stiegler’s attempt to become aware, and to make us aware – as a disjunctive and conjunctive tensor and actuator, striving always to resolve this tension by catalysing a new collective process – of the way in which the sensible, which is to say the aesthetic, remains the pre-eminent front in the economic war that it remains our task to discover how to pacify, which is to say, transform, in the time we have remaining, and in the knowledge that we can do so only by simultaneously giving care to our own and each other’s depression.