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What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning.Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality, with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world wars.
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3 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to Derrida, of which he was the pupil, Stiegler starts a turning in the philosophical analysis of the destiny of the technique.
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why bother?
27 Jan 2005
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if you love the late barthes, drool over the melancholic nature of lack and need another foundation from which to cry 'alienation' in the face of the one/multiplicity- stiegler is your man!
his derridian inversion, making technicity the de-fault, determining structure of dasein is interesting for the ride- but it's merely formal play. by shifting from an oral/written (instrumental) conception of temporality to a written/industrial (cybernetic) division, one reads, especially in the second volume (la desorientation- only out in french), the same negative engagement Heidegger had with modernity.
before reading stiegler ask yourself: must i do this (for school)? am i a true disciple of phenomenology (hegel, husserl, heidegger, merleau-ponty, etc.)? will i be engaged by hearing virilio-esque media hysteria? do i revel in adorno-esque negativity, put my trust in a top-down image of the culture industry, and/or have no particular concern for the question of agency/appropriation?
if more than 50% were yes, then this is for you, those folks who love existential analytics combined with a high culture conservatism.
his derridian inversion, making technicity the de-fault, determining structure of dasein is interesting for the ride- but it's merely formal play. by shifting from an oral/written (instrumental) conception of temporality to a written/industrial (cybernetic) division, one reads, especially in the second volume (la desorientation- only out in french), the same negative engagement Heidegger had with modernity.
before reading stiegler ask yourself: must i do this (for school)? am i a true disciple of phenomenology (hegel, husserl, heidegger, merleau-ponty, etc.)? will i be engaged by hearing virilio-esque media hysteria? do i revel in adorno-esque negativity, put my trust in a top-down image of the culture industry, and/or have no particular concern for the question of agency/appropriation?
if more than 50% were yes, then this is for you, those folks who love existential analytics combined with a high culture conservatism.
4 of 38 people found the following review helpful
TECHNICALITY: FAULT & DEFAULT
27 May 1999
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the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to Derrida, of which he was the pupil, Stiegler starts a turning in the philosophical analysis of the destiny of the technique.
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