技術と時間2 方向喪失-ディスオリエンテーション

Technics and Time #2

by Bernard Stiegler

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.

Genres: Philosophy, Technology, Theory, Nonfiction

Tankobon Hardcover

About the author

Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is co-founder of the political group Ars Industrialis. 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).

Reviews

[Steen Ledet · Rating 3 out of 5]

At a conference, I heard WJT Mitchell say that while Derrida goes on, Stiegler goes on and on. Reading Disorientation, I must agree as this volume does not bring in much new in terms of the first volume. The final chapter, " Temporal Object and Retentional Finitude," is by far the most interesting and radical.

[Michael]

Probably one of the hardest books I've read in my life, but worth it. While I started reading vol. 3 in 2020, then volume 1 in 2021-2022, now we have finished the trilogy! Every word of it read aloud. I usually read in French and my friend in English. It makes for good discussions. Now the challenge is to try to write about it.