Philosophising by Accident

Traces the evolution of Bernard Stiegler's influential philosophy of technics This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted in December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Stiegler's Time and Technics series. This collection includes a new interview conducted specially for this volume. In Philosophising By Accident Stiegler introduces some of the key arguments about the technical constitution of the human, and its relation to politics, aesthetics and economics. He reads philosophical texts from the perspective of his controversial thesis about the three types of memory and refers to concepts central to his later works such as synchrony/diachrony, grammatisation and the industrial temporal object. Bernard Stiegler is the Director of the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI) at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Élie During is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 10, Nanterre. Benoît Dillet is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany.