RELATED TERMS: World; World Building
Bernard Stiegler, in contemplating the mode of existence of the noetic soul, in other words, the (human) psychic apparatus, is led to consider what is its milieu. Ross (2018: 16) explains that, at first, Stiegler thought it must be language. However, further contemplation made him realise that it is the exteriorised milieu in general, the realm of technics: artefacts, technical artefacts and environmental systems.
In the absence of the exterior milieu, the psychic apparatus consists in nothing but anamnesic memories interwoven with the hypomnesic traces left by those artefacts which form, “an artificial memory and projective mechanism that would serve only to demonstrate, above all, the irreducibility of the exterior.” (Ross, 2018: 16)
As Stiegler (2018: 37) expresses it, “the artefact is the mainspring of hominization, its condition and its fate.”
References
Ross, D. (2018) Introduction. In Stiegler, B. The Neganthropocene. London, UK: Open Humanities Press, pp. 7-32.
Stiegler, B. (2018) The Neganthropocene. London, UK: Open Humanities Press
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