Technics and Time, 2 : Disorientation

Bernard Stiegler

ISBN 10: 0804730121 / ISBN 13: 9780804730129

Published by Stanford University Press Okt 2008, 2008

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Neuware - 'Technics and Time 2: Disorientation' continues Stiegler's interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when speed and delay are irreconcilable, the crisis of 'human being' itself.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Technics and Time, 2 : Disorientation
• Publisher: Stanford University Press Okt 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804730121
• ISBN 13: 9780804730129
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 157H x 20D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 476 grams

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Synopsis

Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.The author's broad intent is to respond to Western philosophy's historical exclusion of technics and techniques from its metaphysical questionings, and in so doing to rescue critical and philosophical thinking. For many years, Stiegler has explored the origins and philosophical, ethical, and political stakes of a global process he calls "the industrial temporalization of consciousness." Here, demonstrating that technology―including alphabetical writing―is memory, he argues that through new technologies of retention and inscription we have come to live in a world where time devours space, a disoriented world in which we have lost our bearings. Immersed in the multimedia of an over-connected world, with time and space as we know them abolished, we no longer find "cardinal points" to guide us and may even be led where we do not wish to go. We must therefore prepare to confront new spheres of ideological control and discover new possibilities in the digital environment.

About the Author

Bernard Stiegler is Head of the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and co-founder of the political group Ars Industrialis. In the last five years alone, he has authored seventeen books.