Technics and time, 2 : disorientation

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,

“What is left out from our memory?” Indeed, “today more than ever the political question is memory”

Stiegler begins his discussion of the externalization of time, memory, or historical continuity by explaining how orthographic writing constitutes collective beliefs and how it is indeed a crucial aspect of “collective individuation” as such.