Bernard Stiegler: Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (1996–) [FR, EN, ES]
Filed under book | Tags: · consciousness, deterritorialization, memory, metaphysics, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of technology, technology
“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.”
Publisher Galilée, Paris, 1996
English edition
Translated by Stephen Barker
Publisher Stanford University Press, 2009
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series
ISBN 0804730121, 9780804730129
288 pages
Publisher (EN)
La Technique et le temps 2. La Désorientation (French, 1996, updated on 2012-7-19)
Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (English, 2009, updated on 2020-8-7)
La tecnica y el tiempo, II. La desorientacion (Spanish, updated on 2012-7-19)
Neil Rhodes, Jonathan Sawday (eds.): The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · history of technology, hypertext, knowledge, memory, print, renaissance, storage, technology
In the fifteenth century the printing press was the ‘new technology’. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge.
As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines?
The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including:
* the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity
* the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education
* the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415220637, 9780415220637
212 pages
Roy Ascott (ed.): Reframing Consciousness: Art, Mind and Technology (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, chaos theory, consciousness, cyberspace, electronic art, hypermedia, interface, memory, science, technology, telematics, telepresence, virtual reality
We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves? This book covers a wide-ranging discussion on the interaction between Art, Science and Technology, and goes on to challenge assumptions about ‘reality’.
Loosely themed around four key elements of Mind, Body, Art and Values, the editor leads the investigation through the familiar territories of interactive media and artificial life, combining them with new and ancient ideas about creativity and personal identity.The contributing authors number over sixty highly respected practitioners and theorists in art and science, bringing to the subject a stimulating diversity of approach and a rich background of knowledge.
Art has long been preoccupied with questions involving the mind and consciousness. But it is fast finding that new technology, creatively applied, brings new possibilities to bear. This volume provides a strong foundation for the debates that are sure to follow in this field.
Publisher Intellect Books, 1999
ISBN 1841500135, 9781841500133
314 pages
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