The Technics And The Time Theory Of Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler(1952-)is a contemporary French philosopher and critical social theorist.He has written his best known work "Technics and Time",which is the foundation of his philosophy of technology and critical theory.He combines technical philosophy with phenomenology to criticize the technology of contemporary capitalist society,especially the digitized capitalist society.Stigler's technical philosophy,influenced by French philosophers Gill,Gilbert Simondon,Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Martin Heidegger,grasps Heidegger's dismissal of technology as a productive activity.Production is changing inexistence for the existence of the point of view.Stiegler believes that the new type of relationship between technology and knowledge-economic,social and political relations needs to be reviewed.At the same time,he also proposes the originality of the third persistence(the third memory of retentions tertiaires)through the interpretation for the first persistence and the second persistence in Husserl's consciousness time phenomenology.Unlike Husserl's memory experience,Stiegler argues that the third persistence is a record of making up for the limitations of the human memory of the biological function,and he places the third persistence on the property of a carrier of something other than man,and it is precisely this character that makes man's collective memory and cultural traditions an object of industrialization that can be mass-produced and controlled worldwide.On this basis,Stiegler has combined Heidegger's reflections on science and technology,Derrida's deconstruction theory and contemporary capitalist society's digital network structure,forming the Critical Theory of Information Technology based on technical prosthetic ontology.On the other hand,Stiegler has inherited the social critical logic of the Frankfurt school and revealed the loss of individuality-the proletarianization of ideas in the context of contemporary technology and capital.In particular,it points out the Hollywood cultural colonization under the potential influence of the movie montage.The development of a series of digital technologies such as modern film and television has exacerbated the hidden control and domination of capitalist ideology Stiegler has used a large number of modern social facts to identify a systemic betise of the entire human society under the rapid development of technology.He has proposed that we should construct a "new political economy" on the critical clues of Marxism and continue to write a new"capitalism" under the condition of digitized capitalism.It is hoped that the current digitalized capitalist world could be reversed by reversing the negatives in the pharmacy-based technology while freeing up innovative technologies from the bourgeois commodity value structures,leading a new personalization and building a brand new Communism of knowledge.In today's society,especially in our daily life,invaded by digital technology,this new digital alienation of the subject urgently needs careful attention and exploration.However,the digital existence and digital symbolism discussed by Stiegler's theory lacks the material production logic of Marx's historical materialism,which makes his theory difficult to touch upon the essence of the changing mode of production of contemporary capitalism.