What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced w
The first of three volumes revising the Aristotelian distinction between natural objects, which have in themselves the power to move and rest, and technical objects, which do not have a source of thei
In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attentio
Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the sam
Having worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship with technics and technology in Volumes 1 and 2, in the third volume of Technics and Time Bernard Stiegler looks at the problema
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
The disorientation Stiegler (cultural development, Pompidou Center, Paris) describes arises from tying to make sense of the modern world with categories that were developed when the world seemed to ch
Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the sam
Stiegler (cultural development, Pompidou Center) addresses the problems that arise when the media industry targets and manipulates the attention of youth and, by so doing, seriously damages the develo
This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted from 8-15 December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series. Th
This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted from 8-15 December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series. Th
Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incar
Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of inc
