Bernard Stiegler Quotes
Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher of technology, a former pupil of Jacques Derrida, and one of the most original thinkers of digital culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His three-volume Technics and Time argued, against Heidegger, that the human is constituted by its technical prostheses, and that there is no humanity prior to the tools through which it remembers and acts. The quotes below are attributed to Bernard Stiegler, organized by topic.
Bernard Stiegler on Knowledge
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“All technics is a pharmakon, at once poison and remedy.”
Bernard Stiegler on Life
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“We must learn to live in the catastrophe.”
Bernard Stiegler on Mind
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“Memory is not internal to the brain; it is borne by the technical milieu in which it inscribes itself.”
Bernard Stiegler on Nature
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“The human is technical through and through; there is no humanity prior to its tools.”
Bernard Stiegler on Politics
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“To take care of the world is to take care of the conditions under which thinking remains possible.”