Technics and Time, 3 Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise [Hardcover]

In the first two volumes ofTechnics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant'sCritique of Pure Reason, particularly in the two versions of the Transcendental Deduction. Stiegler relates this problematic to the cinematic nature of time, which precedes cinema itself but reaches an apotheosis in it as theexteriorization processof schema, through tertiary retentions and their mechanisms. The book focuses on the relationship between these themes and the culture industry  as defined by Adorno and Horkheimerthat has supplanted the educational institutions on which genuine cultural participation depends. This displacement, Stiegler says, has produced a malaise from which current global culture suffers. The result is potentially catastrophic.Technics and Time, 3furthers Stiegler's critique of technics, working (back) through Kant in order to examine the nature of cinematic time relative to phenomenology and hypertechnology.Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is co-founder of the political groupArs Industrialis.Stanford University Press has published the first two volumes ofTechnics and Time, The Fault of Epimetheus(1998) andDisorientation(2008), as well as hisActing Out(2008) andTaking Care of Youth and the Generations(2010).