Institut de recherche et d'innovation

Only published in French translation, in Benoît Dillet and Alain Jugnon (eds.), Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler. Note that this paper, from 2008, implies that Stiegler does not refer to Gregory Bateson, whereas in fact he does do so in several texts, although as far as I know nobody has ever written on this connection.

In: Reconstruction 11.2 (2011). The lecture was originally delivered in 2005. Via what matrix should the significance of September 11 be grasped? In 1994 Arakawa and Gins launched a form of thought that began by asking who or what you would be if you were parted from the ledge of a New York skyscraper. In the same year Stiegler commenced his own project, according to which the question of the "human" is the question of the articulation of the who with the what, a question which necessarily passes through a consideration of memory, and of mnemo-technical systems. This paper proposes to read Arakawa and Gins, and Stiegler, through the prism of September 11, and vice versa.