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In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What does it mean to speak of the present in a situation of "live" recording? How can we respond, responsibly, to a question when we know that the so-called "natural" conditions of expression, discussion, reflection, and deliberation have been breached?
As Derrida and Stiegler discuss the role of teletechnologies in modern society, the political implications of Derrida s thought become apparent. Drawing on recent events in Europe, Derrida and Stiegler explore the impact of television and the internet on our understanding of the state, its borders and citizenship. Their discussion examines the relationship between the juridical and the technical, and it shows how new technologies for manipulating and transmitting images have influenced our notions of democracy, history and the body. The book opens with a shorter interview with Derrida on the news media, and closes with a provocative essay by Stiegler on the epistemology of digital photography.
In Echographies of Television, Derrida and Stiegler open up questions that are of key social and political importance. Their book will be of great interest to all those already familiar with Derrida s work, as well as to students and scholars of philosophy, literature, sociology and media studies.
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Translator s Note.
Artifactualities: Jacques Derrida .
Echographies of Television: Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler.
Chapter 1 Right of Inspection.
Chapter 2 Artifactuality, Homohegemony.
Chapter 3 Acts of Memory: Topolitics and Teletechnology.
Chapter 4 Inheritances - and Rhythm.
Chapter 5 'Cultural Exception : the States of the State, the Event.
Chapter 6 The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence.
Chapter 7 Phonographies: Meaning - from Heritage to Horizon.
Chapter 8 Spectrographies.
Chapter 9 Vigilances of the Unconscious.
The Discrete Image: Bernard Stiegler .
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About the author
Jacques Derrida, geb. 1930 in El-Biar in der Nähe von Algier als Sohn jüdischer Eltern, war während seiner Schulzeit antisemitischen Repressionen ausgesetzt. Ab 1949 lebte er in Frankreich und besuchte das Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Von 1952 bis 1954 studierte er an der École Normale Supérieure, wo er Vorlesungen bei Louis Althusser und Michel Foucault besuchte und sich mit Pierre Bourdieu anfreundete. 1956 gewann er ein Stipendium für einen Studienaufenthalt an der Harvard University. Während seines Militärdienstes von 1957 bis 1959 lehrte er Englisch und Französisch in Algerien. Von 1960 bis 1964 war er wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Sorbonne. Ab 1965 bis 1984 bekleidete er eine Professur für Geschichte der Philosophie an der École Normale Supérieure. 1981 gründete er die Gesellschaft Jan Hus (eine Hilfsorganisation für verfolgte tschechische Intellektuelle). Im selben Jahr wurde er in Prag verhaftet und erst nach einer energischen Intervention François Mitterrands und der französischen Regierung von der Tschechoslowakei freigelassen. 1983 gründete er das Collège international de philosophie , zu dessen erstem Direktor er gewählt wurde. Jacques Derrida starb im Jahr 2004 in Paris
Bernard Stiegler, geb. 1952, promovierte an der École des hautes études en sciences sociales, war 1988-2001 Professor für Philosophie an der Universität von Compiègne und ist seit 2002 Direktor des Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique musique (IRCAM) in Paris.
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In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise.
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Jacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001
