BERNARD STIEGLER

Bernard Stiegler

Technics is constitutive of the human

The conventional model says: human first exists → technology is added. Stiegler destabilizes this sequence. The human is constituted through technical exteriorization.

Tools are not merely external accessories. They participate in memory, gesture, knowledge, time and transmission.

Body → tool → external memory → cultural transmission.

Originary technicity

Technics is originary: the human is technically constituted from the beginning. A prosthesis extends capacity, but also produces dependence and reorganizes what capacity means.

Avoid both technophilia and technophobia: prosthesis is not simply liberation or loss, but constitution.