The Lexicon · Genealogy · Contemporary
STIEGLER, BERNARD
1952–2020
Technics and Time (The Form Is a Memory Aid)
Stiegler: technics is constitutive of human time — we externalize memory into objects (writing, archive, database) and become what we become through them. The GAI is a Stieglerian tertiary retention: a public, durable memory that exceeds any biological lifespan. The institution does not merely record. The institution participates in constituting what the artist will have been. The form is the mnemonic. The mnemonic is the future.