Description
Book SynopsisDisorientation 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 technologyincluding alphabetical writingis 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-connect
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"Disorientation, a most important piece of scholarly work, continues and adds to the development of the arguments set forth in the preceding volume of Technics and Time, putting a whole new set of clarifications into place. It will interest philosophers in general and should become required reading for anyone interested in cognitive science."—Rodolphe Gasché
"Bernard Stiegler's ambition for Technics and Time 2: Disorientation is exhilaratingly immodest: he promises to offer nothing less than a history of temporality, from prehistoric man to the present day . . . Stiegler makes a convincing case for the vital importance of the politics of memory in the 21st century."—Julian Brigstocke, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Table of Contents
Translators' note General introduction Part I. The Invention of the Human: Introduction: 1. Theories of technical evolution 2. Technology and anthropology 3. Who? What? The invention of the human Part II. The Fault of Epimetheus: Introduction: 1. Prometheus's liver 2. Already there 3. The disengagement of the what Notes Bibliography.
