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<B>Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics<BR>
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"What has been neglected and repressed by cognitivism, as well as by philosophy as a whole, going back to Plato's first gesture of thought, is the place of technics in general in life, technics as the condition of life<BR>
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- Bernard Stiegler, "Desire and Knowledge: the Dead Seize the Living" <BR>
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Bernard Stiegler's concept of technics has emerged recently as an important contribution to studies of the relation between technology, time and the human. Technics, or the prosthetic supplementation of the human in "default" of the origin, is the condition of "life that knows." Drawing from and critiquing various sources, including the work on evolutionary biology by Gilbert Simondon, on palaoanthropology by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, on Martin Heidegger's existential analysis of Dasein and Jacques Derrida's différance as the logic of the supplement, Stiegler has proposed arguments about technology and its relation to the human that suggest a formulation of human life as "epiphylogenetic", that is, evolving according to the logic of prosthetic supplementation. Transformations invites submissions of abstracts for articles to be considered for publication in late 2008 on the topic of "Stiegler and the question of technics."<BR>
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Some possible themes include:<BR>
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Steigler and Heidegger<BR>
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Steigler and différance: encounters with Derrida<BR>
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Technics and art<BR>
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Steigler and the Greeks<BR>
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Technics and technology<BR>
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Technics and power<BR>
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Technics and memory: epigenesis and epiphylogenesis<BR>
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Technics and the culture industries<BR>
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Abstracts (500 words): due 15 September<BR>
With a view to submit articles by 12th December<BR>
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Abstracts to be forwarded to Warwick Mules, general editor at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="w.mules@bigpond.com">w.mules@bigpond.com</a></U></FONT> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="mailto:w.mules@bigpond.com">mailto:w.mules@bigpond.com</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#007F7F">Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor Transformations </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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English, Media Studies and Art History<BR>
University of Queensland<BR>
Brisbane, Queensland <BR>
Australia 4072<BR>
mobile: 0412292541<BR>
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