Do we need to take more seriously Nietzsche’s call for philosophy to begin not in astonishment but in dread? Or Guattari’s warning about a “barbaric implosion”? Or Deleuze’s unflinching diagnosis of control societies—just before the Internet arrived? If our present feels unthinkable, perhaps thought has forgotten how to care.
Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression—volume one of his two-part opus What Is Called Caring?—returns to care as philosophy’s most urgent task in the Anthropocene. In Daniel Ross’s lucid, definitive English translation, Stiegler reads our crisis through the lenses of technics, attention, and desire, and asks how thinking might once again bandage, tend, and repair.
Join us at Pro qm for a launch with Bernard Stiegler’s translator Daniel Ross, who will discuss the book, read selected passages, and reflect on working with one of Europe’s most incisive contemporary philosophers. This is a rare chance to hear Ross in Berlin: truly not to be missed.
Read the translator’s introduction
On the occasion of the launch, we’re delighted to share Daniel Ross’s specially written introduction to Bernard Stiegler’s new English edition. You can download and read it here.
About the series
The Immense Regression inaugurates Pensées soignées, K. Verlag’s new series dedicated to bringing vital, non-Anglophone thinking on care—caring for the world, for others, and for thought itself—into English. Volume two of Stiegler’s work, The Lesson of Greta Thunberg, as well as several other must-read works by other writers—including Anne Alombert, Fatima Ouassak, and Davi Kopenawa—follow in 2025 and 2026. The series is co-edited by Stuart Kendall and Etienne Turpin.
About the authors
Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) was a philosopher and cultural theorist, founder of Ars Industrialis and pharmakon.fr, and former director of the Institut de recherche et d’innovation at the Centre Pompidou.
Daniel Ross holds a PhD from Monash University; he is the author of Violent Democracy and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis, co-director of the award-winning film The Ister, and translator of many of Stiegler’s books.
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Event: The Immense Regression — Book Launch with Daniel Ross
When: Wednesday, 23 October, 19:00
Where: Pro qm, Berlin
Note: A Paris follow-up event will be announced soon—stay tuned.
We can’t wait to see you there.