Bernard Stiegler wants cultural industries to be given a new role

The French philosopher Bernard Stiegler will be taking part in the conference 'Desire and cultural diversity' that will be held in Ixelles this week. He answers the questions of William Bourton. "We face huge problems today: demographic growth, increasing pollution, the depletion of natural resources... ... The only way for the situation to be straightened out is to increase collective intelligence. This will therefore entail an intelligent industrial policy, which means culture. For a century, cultural industries have been used for marketing and selling off products; Now they should be used to slow down consumerism and adopt new kinds of intelligent behaviour."

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