Technics and Time

by Stiegler, Bernard; Barker, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780804761680
• ISBN10: 080476168X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

In the first two volumes ofTechnics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant'sCritique of Pure Reason, particularly in the two versions of the Transcendental Deduction. Stiegler relates this problematic to the "cinematic nature" of time, which precedes cinema itself but reaches an apotheosis in it as theexteriorization processof schema, through tertiary retentions and their mechanisms. The book focuses on the relationship between these themes and the "culture industry"-- as defined by Adorno and Horkheimer--that has supplanted the educational institutions on which genuine cultural participation depends. This displacement, Stiegler says, has produced a malaise from which current global culture suffers. The result is potentially catastrophic.

Author Biography

Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris. He is cofounder of the political group Ars Industrialis and founder of The School of Philosophy at pineuil-le-Fleuriel. Stanford University Press has published the first two volumes of Technics and Time-The Fault of Epimetheus (1998) and Disorientation (2008)-as well as his Acting Out (2008) and Taking Care of Youth and the Generations (2010).

Table of Contents

Notice	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Cinematic Time	p. 8
Cinematic Consciousness	p. 35
I and We: The American Politics of Adoption	p. 79
The Malaise of Our Educational Institutions	p. 131
Making (the) Difference	p. 157
Technoscience and Reproduction	p. 187
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 251
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