...Daniel Ross Bernard Stiegler's account of aesthetics is rooted in André Leroi-Gourhan's concept of exteriorization, Gilbert Simondon's concept of individuation, and Edmund Husserl's concepts of retention and protention. Cinema takes up a singular place in this account, both in terms of its...

... paleoanthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan, Stiegler argues that humans evolve biologically insofar as they are animals, but they become human only through technics. Through tools, we are able to take hold of our own future by reconstructing environments to which we are maladapted and by preserving values that we choose...

... such.” Combining the rhetorics of Gilbert Simondon and André Leroi-­Gourhan (both of whom Stiegler embraces as precursors), we might translate Valéry’s text by saying: the life of the spirit emerges from a transductive relation between life/spirit (i.e., it emerges from a preceding complex not...

..., 1998). Here- after, this work is cited parenthetically as TT1. 90 boundary 2 / May 2015 of André Leroi-Gourhan,­ Stiegler posits technics as a system of which the human is the co-­constituent who, through a process of exteriorization, pur- sues “life by means other than life” (TT1, 17...