[D66] Stiegler post-marxism

[R.O.]

https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article/6/2/133/8008/Bernard-Stiegler-Philosophy-Technics-and-Activism

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In his mobilization of Heidegger can be compared intriguingly to 
Stiegler's positioning of his analysis vis-à-vis Marxism. If Karl Marx 
was the first major thinker in the West to call for the analysis of 
technology as an autonomous, motor force of human development (Stiegler 
1998: 2), Stiegler argues that Marxism (Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas) has 
not been able to think the compositional dynamic of human–technical 
becoming, resorting to a teleological dialectic based on nature/culture 
and human/technics oppositions (1998: 10–13). Marx ultimately resorted 
to articulating the relations of production with the means of production 
through a dynamic ruled by the contest for ownership. Consequently, 
Stiegler argues elsewhere, technics never escaped determination as a 
means of human agency and object of political struggle in Marx's 
political economy (Stiegler 2006b: 58). So while one can, as Stiegler 
himself has done, identify important correspondences between his account 
of technoculture and one leading from the Kulturcritik of the Frankfurt 
school, Stiegler's prosthetic conception of human becoming develops a 
significantly different approach to thinking and acting against the 
technically conditioned contemporary cultural milieu. It can never be 
simply a question of ownership of the means of production (and of 
consumption, that is, marketing), nor one of exposing systematic 
alienation or reification. People do not simply use tools, or 
misconceive (or be deceived about) their use; they become (different) in 
and through the technicities which condition their very existence.

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