Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics, and Activism

Crogan, Patrick

doi:10.2752/175174310x12672016548162

Cited by 15 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 13 publications

(9 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Stiegler argues that it is the organization of inorganic matter as supplements, particularly for memory, that differentiates the human: ‘If molecular biology is correct in claiming that the sexual being is defined by the somatic memory of the epigenetic and the germinal memory of the genetic , which in principle do not communicate with each other … exteriorization is a rupture in the history of life resulting in the appearance of a third – tertiary – memory I have called epiphylogenetic ’ (Stiegler, 2009b: 4). Crogan (2010) provides an excellent overview of Stiegler’s philosophy and activism in an editorial.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The matter of ‘virtual’ geographies

Kinsley

2013

Progress in Human Geography

200

160

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Geographers have long wrestled with the spatial characteristics of digital mediation. In this regard, ‘the virtual’ as somehow other and immaterial has proven a persistent trope. The aim here is to argue for a greater attention to the material conditions of the digital. This article revisits the articulation of ‘virtual’ geographies and reviews recent discussion of digitally mediated activity. To materially address ‘the virtual’, the fundamental relationship between humans and technology is investigated as ‘technics’, using recent work in the geographies and philosophy of technology. Observations are made about how this may inform broader understandings of spatiality and culture.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The matter of ‘virtual’ geographies

Kinsley

2013

Progress in Human Geography

200

160

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…x While the focus here is upon how StieglerÕs philosophy opens up a consideration of the indeterminate future of the human as political, what is not addressed in more detail is the way in which memory and the control of its technical basis is a site for political contestation. For more on this in particular see the work of Beardsworth (1995), Roberts (2006), and Sinnerbrink (2009), or for broader summaries of StieglerÕs politics, see Abbninett (2015), Beardsworth (2010), Crogan (2010), and Vesco (2015).…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life and the Technical Transformation of Différance: Stiegler and the Noopolitics of Becoming Non-Inhuman

Turner¹

2016

Derrida Today

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Through a re-articulation of Derridean différance, Bernard Stiegler claims that the human is defined by an originary default that displaces all psychic and social life onto technical supplements. His philosophy of technics re-articulates the logic of the supplement as concerning both human reflexivity and its supports, and the history of the différance of life itself. This has been criticised for reducing Derrida's work to a metaphysics of presence, and for instituting a humanism of the relation to the inorganic. By refuting these claims, this article will show that Stiegler's doubling of différance enables him to articulate the human as constituted by both the individuation characteristic of ‘life’, and that of a technical, psychic, and collective individuation. Putting forward a reading of the logic of the trace in life, and emphasising the aspects of Leroi-Gourhan, Simondon, and Canguilhem that Stiegler uses in his reading of Derrida, I will demonstrate that the political stakes of adaption and adoption in his Noopolitics require this re-articulation of différance. Technics shapes the human future, arising from this differential mutation; marking the invention of the human as the site of the political.

show abstract

“…Selection and memory are therefore intimately linked. The corporeal body is the 'site' of selection; it is actively shaped by the atmospheres and events to which it is exposed and it retains aspects of those events across the life course, both intentionally and unintentionally (see Crogan and Kennedy, 2009; see also Crogan, 2010, on how Steigler's work is useful in understanding videogames).…”

Section: Attunementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technologies of Captivation

Ash

2013

Body & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article analyses the skills and knowledges involved in multiplayer first-person shooting games, specifically Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360 games console. In doing so, it argues that the environments of first-person shooting games are designed to be intense spaces that produce captivated subjects -users who play attentively for long periods of time. Developing Heidegger's concept of attunement and Stiegler's account of retention, the article unpacks the somatic and sensory skills involved in videogame play and discusses how videogame environments cultivate a sense of captivation. In conclusion the article reflects on the politics of captivation for the bodies that engage with these games through the idea of vulnerability as an 'opening of the body's capacity for sense'.Academic writing on videogames is beginning to investigate the skills that need to be developed to use a variety of games. This, in turn, has led to a recognition that different games require very specific sets of skills and knowledges in order for users to be successful at them (for example, Millington, 2009;Reeves et al., 2009). At the same time, work on the relationship between experiences of time, space and technology has attempted to uncover the ways in which the human body is shaped on a variety of 'unconscious' levels by different technologies (see, for example, Hansen,

show abstract

Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics, and Activism

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

The matter of ‘virtual’ geographies

The matter of ‘virtual’ geographies

Life and the Technical Transformation of Différance: Stiegler and the Noopolitics of Becoming Non-Inhuman

Technologies of Captivation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About