laocoon and his sons

elizabeth nympha / bernard stiegler / warburg haus

exosomatic

Four Horsemen of the Aufklärung

Je compare cette stratégie à celle du site Les barbares attaquent, fondé par Nicolas Colin, un ancien inspecteur des finances, connu pour son rapport sur la fiscalité du numérique, où il mettait en évidence l’inadéquation du système fiscal face à l’industrie numérique, qu’il décrivait comme des « cavaliers de l’Apocalypse », en l’occurrence les GAFA [acronyme pour Google, Apple, Facebook et Amazon].

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Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is the remains of the house. One is still prone to think of it as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.

markson /wittgenstein's mistress

According to the principle by which it is only in the burning house that the fundamental architectural problem becomes visible for the first time, art at the furthest point of its destiny, makes visible its original project.

agamben / man without content / 115



















It is said of an old African man who is dying that he is a burning library - except that [as compared with the old African man] the burning of a library [which is itself a souvenir object] is an accident: in principle, the library lasts. Whereas, in principle, death is inscribed in life itself [this is why the man is old], as its 'normal' or 'natural' term, so to speak.

stiegler / discrete image / echographies/ 148

groundless

Seen as originary, disorientation is always constituted by identifiable, characteristic orientation-markers (cardinalité( designating its borders, in- dicating North and South, Orient and Occident. In disorientation, how- ever, Orient and Occident are not simply geographic givens; Orient and Occident designate particular experiences of disorientation. Such cardi- nal directional markers, insofar as they open (to) the horizon of meaning and configure the motif for all motivation, can be reified only through experience of and in the world. Observed over significant lengths of time, establishment of such cardinal points is what “adjusts” both techno-gen- esis and socio-genesis. Through this positing of directions and their ad- justments, disorientation opens a space of difference, between here and there, public and private, profane and sacred, strange and familiar, and so on. Adjustments (re-)orient, and originary disorientation is converted, if not occluded. If such adjustments are the engine of all motivation, and if they must be oriented, it is because the orient (the other) is missing. From this missing other, cardinal designation produces a figure (a motive that is a goal) in which what is being oriented is reflected—the Orient is this mirage.3
This cardinal orientation is not successfully occurring today; thus we are suffering from disorientation as such.

stiegler / t&t 2 / Intro

roundabout

Embodied

Memory of species = genome

Individual memory = nervous system

Discrete

External memory systems and supports, trace, object, mark, writing , - apparatus for access & re-activation

Part of ourselves is outside ourselves – cognitive technologies – our memory is in the apparatus: grammatised.

Externalised, memory is subject to [socio-, bio-] political control, feeding back to re-tool the organization of thought.

Continuum

Benjamin’s sparks and flashes accelerate down optical cable, streaming speed of light, the event no longer precedes its seizure.

psycho-control

galloway on stiegler

The Discrete Image

The image in general does not exist.

image-object
anima
cinema

Thomas / Blow Up
the conditions of belief / evidence

l'écran
l'écrit