My sincere thanks to Dan Ross for posting this information and to Ben Robertson for marshalling it into a single place. I have tried to identify the translators where possible and provide links where they may be meaningful.  I was introduced to Stiegler’s work by my colleague Patrick Crogan and it has proven useful to my research, and indeed Robertson’s, this bibliography is very timely and tremendously useful, I hope it is to you too.

For more on Dan, who directed the fantastic The Ister and wrote Violent Democracy, see his Wikipedia page.

Derrida, Jacques, Stiegler, Bernard, 2002 Echographies of Television: filmed interviews. Polity, Cambridge.

Stiegler, Bernard 1993 “Questioning Technology and Time” Tekhnema 1: 31–44.

Stiegler, Bernard, 1996 “Persephone, Oedipus, Epimetheus” Tekhnema 3 pp. 69-112.

Stiegler, Bernard 1998 Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. trans. Beardsworth, R., Collins, G., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Stiegler, Bernard 2002 “Derrida and technology: fidelity at the limits of deconstruction and the prosthesis of faith”. In: Cohen, T. (Ed.) Jaques Derrida and the humanities: a critical reader. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 238-270.

Stiegler, Bernard 2006 “Philosophising by Accident“, Public 33, pp. 98-107. (An excerpt from Acting Out).

Stiegler, Bernard 2006 “Within the limits of capitalism, economizing means taking care” (available from: http://arsindustrialis.org/node/2922)

Stiegler, Bernard 2006 “To Take Care” trans. Arnold, S., Crogan, P., Ross, D. (available from: http://arsindustrialis.org/node/2925)

Stiegler, Bernard, 2006 “Spirit, Capitalism and Superego” trans. Collins, G. (available from: http://arsindustrialis.org/node/2928)

Stiegler, Bernard, 2007 “Anamnesis and Hypomnesis: The Memories of Desire” Technicity, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, pp. 15-41.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2007 “Technoscience and reproduction” Parallax 13 (4), pp. 29-45.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2009 Acting Out. trans. Barison, D., Ross, D., Crogan, P., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2009 Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation. trans. Barker, S., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2009 “The Magic Skin; or, The Franco-European Accident of Philosophy after Jacques Derrida” Qui Parle 18 pp. 97-110.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2009 “Teleologics of the Snail: The Errant Self Wired to a WiMax Network” Theory, Culture & Society 26 (2-3), pp. 33-45.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2009 “The Theater of Individuation: Phase-Shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger” trans. Lebedeva, K., Parrhesia 7 (46-57).

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. trans. Barker, S., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 For a New Critique of Political Economy. trans. Ross, D., Polity, Cambridge.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise. trans. Barker, S., Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 “The Carnival of the New Screen”. In: Snickars, P., Vonderau, P. (Eds.) The YouTube Reader. National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, pp. 40-59.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 “The Industrial Exteriorisation of Memory“, Critical Terms for Media Studies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 64-87.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 “New Industrial Temporal Objects”. In: Earnshaw, R., Guedj, R. (Eds.) Frontiers of Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments. Springer Verlag, London, pp. 45-460.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 “Telecracy against democracy” trans. Ross, D., Cultural Politics 6 (2), pp. 171-180.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 The Decadence of Industrial Democracies. trans. Ross, D., Polity, Cambridge.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 “Desire and Knowledge: The Dead Seize the Living” trans. Collins, G., Ross, D. (available from: http://arsindustrialis.org/desire-and-knowledge-dead-seize-living)

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 “The digital as a bearer of another society” Digital Transformation Review, pages 43-50.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 “Pharmacology of Desire: Drive-based Capitalism and Libidinal Dis-economy” New Formations 72 pp. 150-161.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 “The Pharmacology of Spirit”. In: Elliott, J., Attridge, D. (Eds.) Theory after ‘theory’. Routledge, London, pp. 294-310.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2011 “The Tongue of the Eye: What ‘Art History’ Means”. In: Khalip, J., Mitchell, R. (Eds.) Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, pp. 222-236.

Stiegler, Bernard, 2012 Re-Enchantment of the World: The value of the human spirit vs. industrial populism. trans. Arthur, T., Continuum, London.

Stiegler, Bernard, forthcoming Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals. trans. Ross, D., Polity, Cambridge.

Stiegler, Bernard, Crogan, Patrick, 2010 “Knowledge, Care and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler” Cultural Politics 6 (2), pp. 157-170.

Stiegler, Bernard, Hallward, Peter, Gaston, Sean, 2007 “Technics of decision” Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 8 (2), pp. 151-168.

Stiegler, Bernard, Hubaut, Sandrine, 2007 “The True Price of Towering Capitalism: Bernard Stiegler Interviewed” Queen’s Quarterly 114 pp. 340-350.

Stiegler, Bernard, Lemmens, Peter, 2011 “This System Does Not Produce Pleasure Anymore: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler” Krisis 2011 (1), pp. 33-41.

Stiegler, Bernard, O’Gorman, Marcel, 2010 “Bernard Stiegler’s Pharmacy: A conversation” Configurations 18 (3), pp. 458-476.

Stiegler, Bernard, Venn, Couze, Boyne, Roy, Phillips, John, Bishop, Ryan, 2007 “Technics, Media, Teleology: Interview with Bernard Stiegler” Theory, Culture & Society 24 (7-8), pp. 334-341.

I have created an EndNote file for these references, which you can download here. See also the Wikipedia page for Bernard Stiegler, where there is a fairly comprehensive list of Stiegler’s work as well as a list of secondary literature that addresses his work.

[Update 31/01/12: Following a post to the 'crit-geog-forum' list I have received some really helpful emails and so I have updated this bibliography.]

Abba, Thomas, 2009, “Hybrid Stories: Examining the future of transmedia narrative” Journal of Science Fiction Film & Television 1 (2), pp. 59-76.

Adey, Peter, 2004, “Secured and sorted mobilities: Examples from the airport” Surveillance and Society 1 (4), pp. 500-519.

Adey, Peter, 2009, “Facing airport security: affect, biopolitcs and the pre-emptive securitization of the mobile body” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 27 (2), pp. 274-295.

Amin, Ash, Thrift, Nigel, 2002 Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity, London.

Andrejevic, Mark, 2005, “Nothing comes between me and my CPU: smart clothes and “ubiquitous” computing” Theory, Culture & Society 22 (3), pp. 101-119.

Applewhite, Ashton, 2002, “What knows where you are?” IEEE Pervasive Computing 1 (4), pp. 4-8.

Ash, James, 2009, “Emerging spatialities of the screen: video games and the reconfiguration of spatial awareness” Environment and Planning A 41 (9), pp. 2105-2124.

Ash, James, 2010, “Teleplastic technologies: charting practices of orientation and navigation in videogaming” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (3), pp. 414-430.

Ash, James, 2010, “Architectures of affect: anticipating and manipulating the event in processes of videogame design and testing” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 28 pp. 653-671.

Ash, James, 2012, “Technology, Technicity and Emerging Practices of Temporal Sensitivity in Videogames” Environment and Planning A 44 (1), pp. 187-203.

Aurigi, Alessandro, De Cindio, Fiorella (Eds.), 2008 Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT.

Barnes, Tervor J., Hannah, Matthew, 2001, “The place of numbers: Histories, geographies, and theories of quantification” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 19 (4), pp. 379-383.

Barry, Andrew, 2001 Political Machines: Governing a technological society. Athlone, London.

Bell, Genevieve, 2004, “Intimate Computing?” Internet Computing 8 (6), pp. 91-93.

Bell, Genevieve, Dourish, Paul, 2007, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11 (2), pp. 133-143.

Bennett, C. J., 2001, “Cookies, web bugs, webcams and cue cats: Patterns of surveillance on the world wide web” Ethics and Information Technology 3 (3), pp. 195-208.

Berry, David M., 2004, “The contestation of code: A preliminary investigation into the discourse of the free/libre and open source movements” Critical Discourse Studies 1 (1), pp. 65-98.

Berry, David M., 2011 The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age. Palgrave, London.

Bingham, Nick, 1996, “Object-ions: From technological determinism towards geographies of relations” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14 (6), pp. 635-657.

Bingham, Nick, 2001, “Digital places: living with geographic information technologies” Ecumene 8 (2), pp. 227-229.

Britcher, Robert N., 1999 The limits of software. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.

Budd, Lucy, Adey, Peter, 2009, “The software-simulated airworld: anticipatory code and affective aeromobilities” Environment and Planning A 41 (6), pp. 1366-1385.

Castells, Manuel, 1996 The Rise of the Network Society. Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA.

Clough, Patricia Ticiento, 2000 Autoaffection: unconscious thought in the age of teletechnology. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.

Crampton, Jeremy W., 2007, “The biopolitical justification for geosurveillance” Geographical Review 97 (3), pp. 389-403.

Crampton, Jeremy W., 2009, “Cartography: Maps 2.0″ Progress in Human Geography 33 (1), pp. 91-100.

Crang, Michael, 2002, “Between places: Producing hubs, flows, and networks” Environment and Planning A 34 (4), pp. 569-574.

Crang, Michael, Crosbie, Tracie, Graham, Stephen, 2007, “Technology, time-space, and the remediation of neighbourhood life” Environment and Planning A 39 pp. 2405-2422.

Crang, Michael, Graham, Stephen, 2007, “Sentient Cities: Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space” Information, Communication and Society 10 (6), pp. 789-817.

Crogan, Patrick, 2010, “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics and Activism” Cultural Politics 6 (2), pp. 133-156.

Curry, Michael R., 1997, “The digital individual and the private realm” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87 (4), pp. 681-699.

de Goede, Marieke, Randalls, Samuel, 2009, “Precaution, preemption: arts and technologies of the actionable future” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 27 pp. 859-878.

Dodge, Martin, Kitchin, Rob, 2005, “Code and the transduction of space” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95 pp. 162-180.

Dodge, Martin, Kitchin, Rob, 2005, “Codes of life: Identification codes and the machine readable world” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 23 (6), pp. 851-881.

Dodge, Martin, Kitchin, Rob, 2007, “”Outlines of a world coming into existence”: pervasive computing and an ethics of forgetting” environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34 (3), pp. 431-445.

Dodge, Martin, Kitchin, Rob, 2007, “The automatic management of drivers and driving space” Geoforum 38 (2), pp. 264-275.

Dodge, Martin, Kitchin, Rob, 2009, “Software, objects, and home space” Environment and Planning A 41 (6), pp. 1344-1365.

Dourish, Paul, 2004 Where the action is: The foundations of embodied interaction. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Dourish, Paul, Bell, Genevieve, 2007, “The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space” environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34 (3), pp. 414-430.

Dourish, Paul, Bell, Genevieve, 2011 Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Fraser, Alistair, 2007, “Coded spatialities of fieldwork” Area 39 (2), pp. 242–245.

Fuller, Matthew, 2003 Behind the blip: Essays on the culture of software. Autonomedia, New York, NY.

Fuller, Matthew, 2005 Media Ecologies. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Gabrys, Jennifer, 2011 Digital Rubbish: A natural history of electronics. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.

Galloway, Anne, 2004, “Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous computing and the city” Cultural Studies 18 (2/3), pp. 384-408.

Galloway, Anne, 2010, “Locating media futures in the present – or how to map emergent associations or expectations” Aether: the journal of media geography 5a pp. 27-36.

Galloway, Anne, Ward, Matthew, 2006, “Locative media as socialising and spatialising practices: learning from Archeology” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 14 (3/4).

Galloway, Alexander R., 2004 Protocol: How control exists after decentralization. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Galloway, Alexander R., Thacker, Eugene, 2007 The exploit: A theory of networks. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.

Giddings, Seth, 2007, “Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form”. In: de Castells, S., Jensen, J. (Eds.) Worlds in Play: international perspectives on digital games research. Peter Lang, London,

Giddings, Seth, 2007, “Dionysiac machines: videogames and the triumph of the simulacra” Convergence 13 (4), pp. 417-431.

Gold, Rich, 2007 The Plenitude: Creativity, innovation and making stuff. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Graham, Mark, 2010, “Neogeography and the Palimpsests of Place” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 101 (4), pp. 422-436.

Graham, Mark, 2011, ” Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the Internet”. In: Brunn, S. (Ed.) Engineering Earth. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 67-83.

Graham, Mark, Zook, Matthew, 2011, “Visualizing Global Cyberscapes: Mapping User Generated Placemarks” Journal of Urban Technology 18 (1), pp. 115-132.

Graham, Stephen, 1998, “The end of geography or the explosion of place? Conceptualising space, place and information technology” Progress in Human Geography 22 (2), pp. 165-185.

Graham, Stephen, 2004, “Beyond the ‘dazzling light’: from dreams of transcendence to the ‘remediation’ of urban life” New Media and Society 6 (1), pp. 16-25.

Graham, Stephen (Ed.), 2004 The Cybercities Reader. Routledge, London.

Graham, Stephen, 2005, “Software-sorted geographies” Progress in Human Geography 29 (5), pp. 562-580.

Graham, Stephen, Marvin, Simon, 2001 Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities
and the Urban Condition. Routledge, London.

Graham, Stephen, Thrift, Nigel, 2007, “Out of order – Understanding repair and maintenance” Theory Culture & Society 24 (3), pp. 1-25.

Greenfield, Adam, 2006 Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing. New Riders, Berkeley, CA.

Haggerty, Kevin, Ericson, Richard, 2000, “The surveillance assemblage” British Journal of Sociology 51 (4), pp. 605-622.

Hayles, N. Katherine, 1999 How we became posthuman: virutal bodies, in cybernetics, literature and informatics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Hayles, N. Katherine, 2009, “RFID: Human agency and meaning in information-intensive environments ” Theory, Culture & Society 26 (2-3), pp. 47-72.

Hillis, Ken, 1998, “On the margins: the invisibility of communications in geography” Progress in Human Geography 22 (4), pp. 543-566.

Ito, Mizuko, Okabe, Daisuke, Matsuda, Misa (Eds.), 2005 Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile phones in Japanese life. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Jones, Owain, Williams, Morris, Fleuriot, Constance, 2003, “‘A New Sense of Place?’ Mobile ‘wearable’ information communications technology devices and the geographies of urban childhood” Children’s Geographies 1 (2), pp. 165-180.

Kindberg, Tim, Barton, John, Morgan, Jeff, Becker, Gene, Caswell, Debbie, Debaty, Phillipe, Gopal, Gita, Frid, Marcos, Krishnan, Venky, Morris, Howard, Schettino, John, Serra, Bill, Spasojevic, Mirjana, 2000, “People, places, things: Web presence for the real world”, in Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA’00), IEEE Computer Society

Kindberg, Tim, Chalmers, Matthew, Paulos, Eric, 2007, “Urban Computing” IEEE Pervasive Computing 6 (3), pp. 18-20.

Kitchin, Rob, Dodge, Martin, 2006, “Software and the mundane management of air travel” First Monday 11 (9).

Kitchin, Rob, Dodge, Martin, 2011 Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Kitchin, Rob, Kneale, James, 2001, “Science fiction or future fact? Exploring imaginative geographies of the new millennium” Progress in Human Geography 25 (1), pp. 19-35.

Kneale, James, 1999, “The virtual realities of technology and fiction: Reading William Gibson’s cyberspace”. In: Crang, M., Crang, P., May, J. (Eds.) Virtual Geographies: Bodies, spaces, relations. Routledge, London, pp. 205-221.

Kuniavsky, Mike, 2010 Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. Elsevier, Burlington, MA.

Leyshon, Andrew, 2009, “The software slump? Digital music, the democratisation of technology, and the decline of the recording studio sector within the musical economy” Environment and Planning A 41 (6), pp. 1301-1331.

Ling, Rich, 2004 The Mobile Connection: The cell phone’s impact on society. Elsevier, Sa Francisco, CA.

Ling, Rich, 2008 New Tech, New Ties. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Lyon, David, 2003, “Surveillance as social sorting: Computer codes and mobile bodies”. In: Lyon, D. (Ed.) Surveillance as social sorting: Privacy, risk and digital discrimination. Routledge, London,

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2002 Transductions: Bodies and machines at speed. Continuum, London.

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2003, “Transduction: invention, innovation and collective life” (available from: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mackenza/papers/transduction.pdf) accessed: 18/08/07.

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2005, “Untangling the unwired: WiFi and the cultural inversion of infrastructure” Space and Culture 8 (3), pp. 269-285.

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2006 Cutting code: software and sociality. Peter LAng, New York, NY.

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2009, “Intensive movement in wireless digital signal processing: From calculation to envelopment” Environment and Planning A 41 (6), pp. 1294-1308.

Mackenzie, Adrian, 2010 Wirelessness. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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Manovich, Lev, 2001 The Language of New Media. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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McCullough, Malcolm, 2004 Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

McCullough, Malcolm, 2007, “New media urbanism: grounding ambient information technology” environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34 (3), pp. 383-395.

Mitchell, William J., 1995 City of bits: Space, place and the infobahn. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Mitchell, William J., 2003 Me++ The cyborg self and the networked city. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Hee-jeong Choi, Jaz, 2008, “Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science and activism”, online (http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Ubicomp2008/), Seoul, South Korea.

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Pickles, John, 2004 A history of Spaces: Cartographic reason, mapping and hte geo-coded world. Routledge, London.

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Stiegler, Bernard, 2010 Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. trans. Barker, S., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

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Streitz, Norbert A., Kameas, Achilles, Mavrommati, Irene (Eds.), 2007 The disappearing computer: interaction design, system infrastructures and applications for smart environments. Springer, Heidelberg.

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Thrift, N., 2003, “Closer to the machine? Intelligent environments, new forms of possession and the rise of the supertoy” Cultural Geographies 10 (4), pp. 389-407.

Thrift, N., 2004, “Remembering the technological unconscious by foregrounding knowledges of position” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22 (1), pp. 175-190.

Thrift, N., 2004, “Movement-space: the changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness” Economy and Society 33 (4), pp. 582-604.

Thrift, N., 2004, “Electric animals – New models of everyday life?” Cultural Studies 18 (2-3), pp. 461-482.

Thrift, N., 2005, “From born to made: technology, biology and space” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 (4), pp. 463-476.

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Townsend, Anthony, 2000, “Life in the real-time city: mobile telephones and urban metabolism” Journal of Urban Technology 7 (2), pp. 85-104.

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Zook, Matthew, Graham, Mark, 2007, “Mapping DigiPlace: geocoded internet data and the representation of place” environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34 (3), pp. 466-482.

Zook, Matthew, Graham, Mark, 2007, “The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace” Geoforum 38 (6), pp. 1322-1343.

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I have also created an EndNote export formatted file for the above, available here.

The philosopher Bernard Stiegler addresses the problem of being as the need to have learnt the experience of being to recognise it.  For Stiegler, this is only possible through a process of exteriorisation.  Our experience of being is therefore not merely a product of memory but is achieved through the processes of mnemotechnics: the ‘technical prostheses’ through which memory is recorded and transmitted across generations, and which is never limited to individual minds.  Without this sense of memory, Stiegler argues, the human would not be possible.

However, there is something of a ‘chicken and egg’ situation with this ontological position that Adrian Mackenzie identifies as the ‘aporia of origin’: the human, or experience of being human, is not possible without the technical and vice versa.  The interesting resolution of this aporia is that the mental interior is only recognized as such with the advent of the technical exterior. Stiegler explains this aporia of origin thus: ‘The paradox is to have to speak of an exteriorisation without a preceding interior: the interior is constituted in exteriorisation’ (Technics and Time 1).  Thus technicity is a double-bind between being both constitutive and a supplement of ‘the human’.  Therefore, the interior and exterior, and with them the contemporary understanding of the experience of being human and what we understand to be technology, are mutually co-constituted.

The forms of exteriorization Stiegler calls ‘tertiary retention’ are not simply the recording of inner process and sensory/experiential memory, but ‘long-term’ memory, which stretches across generations. Material examples of tertiary retention include things like libraries (and the various ways we may understand archives), oral lore, and the various technological means of recording memory, making it available ‘outside’ of any individual.  This is not only limited to representational mechanisms either.  The acts of manipulating the world, such as working or enclosing land, leaving traces of technically mediated living that can be recognised as such. So, we might contend that wheel tracks carved into a landscape over time are a form of tertiary retention too.

Stiegler argues that to be human (or dasein) is constituted through ongoing processes of individuation. This concept derives from Stiegler’s reading of Simondon, another French philosopher of technology, who posits that the constitution of individuality, and our awareness of being an individual being, is formed by processes of individuation, which are ongoing and never quite complete. Individuation is always and already a process of phenomenological and ‘psychic’ coming to know the world, through the various mental, sensory and physiological means by which we capture the world and it captures us. Individuation, for Stiegler, is pretty much always a trans-individuation between entities.  It is through others (especially people and things) that we understand the world and ourselves. As Stiegler asserted in a talk at Tate Modern in 2004:

“The “I”, as a psychic individual, can only be thought in relationship to a “we”, which is a collective individual: the “I” is constituted in adopting a collective tradition, which it inherits, and in which a plurality of “Is” acknowledge each other’s existence.”

Technologies are crucial in these processes of individuation. From language onward, the human and the technical are co-constituted.  It is only through the exteriorisation of memory as ‘rentention’ that humanity knows itself.  Stiegler understands this as forms of retention. Primary retention is conscious thought, secondary retention is linguistically framed memory and tertiary retention is the inscription of knowledge in the world.  This isn’t just writing, but also any changing of the world around ourselves.  It is through this ‘technical’ understanding of the world that we understand the passage of time.

As James Ash cogently points out in a forthcoming paper: how the ‘now’ is established is contingent upon and relative to the technologies and practices of a specific locality.  There are of course other forms of time consciousness but how the ‘now’ is experienced is shaped through technology and technical knowledge.  These understandings of the ‘specious present’ are made durable through tertiary retentions that are taken up in habits and cultural forms.

The fixity of particular ways of knowing is understood by Stiegler, through an expansion of Derrida’s work, as Grammatisation: the processes of describing and formalizing human behaviour into logos: representations such as letters, pictures, words, writing and code, so that it can be reproduced.

For example, as Matt Wilson and I contended in a recent conference paper: the visual language, terminology, and ways of making people, places and things discrete and codified employed by foursquare is a system of grammatisation. As a brief illustration: ‘recommendations’ are orientated towards activities of consumption; ‘check-in specials’ are similarly oriented; and the categorisation of places that may be identified is also biased towards commercial activity.

Grammatisation processes are, according to Stiegler a form of pharmakon. Following Plato’s dialogues, a pharmakon is both a poison and a cure – a form of recipe, substance or spell.  In Phaedrus, Plato uses the concept of the pharmakon as a play of oppositions: poison-remedy, bad-good etc. For Plato, writing itself is a pharmakon, both a means of recording thought but also a producer of forgetfulness. Any pharmkon therefore is both a ‘poison’ and ‘cure’. So, for example, in the case of the grammatisation effects of foursquare, they too can have both positive and negative effects/connotations.  Novel forms of collectivity may be engendered but the modes of interaction are limited.

However, Stiegler argues in his more activist writings that the rise in media technologies means a form of detrimental effect on our capacity for attention. He argues that we have somewhat moved away from the deep attention of cultural engagement and the positive production of desire, to hyper attention and the stochastic flitting of attention across many media. As my colleague Patrick Crogan has recently argued, Stiegler introduces his account of digital technologies by characterising the contemporary era as one in which the tendency toward the industrialisation of memory approaches. Stiegler argues, not least in his paper at the conference Paying Attention, that our collective experience of how we become individuals, or ‘trans-individuation’:

“has become the object of industrial technology, based on a social engineering, where attention and relational technologies develop via social networks etc. This social engineering has as its goal… the capacity to render [the social relation itself] industrially discretable, reproducible, standardisable, calculable and controllable by automata.”

Whether intended or not, the ‘social engineering’ of the corporatised ‘social web’, in which we are all enrolled as producers of value i.e. attention, is a direct attempt to (re)condition the technics of attention.

In a reworking of the concept of proletarianisation, Stiegler suggests that rather than losing ‘savoir-faire’ (the embodied knowledge of how to make/do) to technical apparatus, as Marx argued of the industrial revolution, the consumer is losing ‘savoir-vivre’ (knowledge of how to live), which is being replaced by apparatus, which are the products of the media industries.

So, processes of proletarianisation in the contemporary ‘knowledge’ economy are, according to Stiegler, causing the loss of faculties of self-critique.  Social media technologies, and those technologies of the ‘programming industries’ that lead to the loss of ‘savoir-vivre’ are, according to Stiegler, ‘psychotechnologies’.  Alexander Galloway describes psychotechnologies as: “games, computers, SMS, etc.; these constitute part of the culture industry; often construed as normatively negative”.

As a result of this line of argument, Stiegler, and colleagues, argue that:

“in our current epoch electronic technologies, monopolized until now by the economic powers emerging from the 20th century as psychotechnologies at the service of behavioural control, must become nootechnologies, that is, technologies of spirit, at the service of de-proletarianization and of the reconstitution of savoir-faire, savoir-vivre and theoretical knowledge.”

Bernard Stiegler’s way of thinking through these themes and his writing addressing not only the metaphysical or ontological conditions of the technicity of being but also the contemporary and urgent political issues around living in a developed (particularly capitalist and technological) society is impressively ambitious and rather inspiring.  It is also worth noting that Stiegler puts his money where his mouth is, he has given up his cushy job as director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at the Georges Pompidou Centre and founded the Ecole de philosophie d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel (the school of philosophy at Epineuil-le-Fleuriel) in central France, to aid in the education of high school students studying for their Baccalaureat, to deliver a public summer school, and a doctoral seminar, also made available online.  Additionally, Stiegler is a founding member of the Ars Industrialis association, which campaigns to: “reconstitute a political project as bearer of a new affirmation of the role of public power, namely: to make a technical becoming into a social future.”

1. The thing that bugs me about [contemporary cultural phenomenon] is [vacuous self-interested navel gazing]
2. Why hasn’t anyone created [app on one platform] for [other platform preferred by opinionated twatterer]?
3. Looking for [anally specific thing]. Wasn’t there [something similar] done by [vague allusion to something else]?
4. You know that thing where [I demonstrate I want to be pithy but just show I'm a bore]
5. When I was [somewhere I think demonstrates that I'm cultured and/or wealthy] I met [first name of a person I don't really know but I think this shows I'm connected] who [does this thing that everyone must believe is terrribly worthy in my post-colonial Western view] – please support them!
6. [Random inane quote] – [person you've never heard of] #[hashtag of conference that shows quite how important and well travelled I think I am]
7. [Random phenomenon in the world] in [place that shows I travel] is [annoying or delightful]

NB: This is a bit of fun… please don’t take it seriously!!