Technology and Time: The Fall of Icarus

Author: Stiegler
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Starting from the inherent qualities of "imperfection" and "representativeness," the book re-discusses the role and status of technology and time in human nature by interpreting the story of Prometheus in Greek mythology, thereby establishing a new relationship between technology, time, and human nature. This book is the volume of the important work Technics and Time by the renowned French scholar Bernard Stiegler. In the book, the author synthesizes theories of technological evolution represented by anthropologists, ethnologists, and prehistorians such as Simon, Gil, and Le Roy-Guérin, as well as the phenomenological theory of existence represented by Heidegger. Starting from the inherent qualities of "imperfection" and "representativeness," the book re-discusses the role and status of technology and time in human nature by interpreting the story of Prometheus in Greek mythology, thereby establishing a new relationship between technology, time, and human nature.