Stiegler's Caring Between Technics, Aesthetics and Politics

Abstract

The paper aims to reconstruct the development of Bernard Stiegler’s therapeutic perspective, with particular reference to the relationship between aesthetics, technology and politics. Although the dimension of care is very present in at least two of the three phases of Stiegler’s philosophy, there still seems to be a lack of a detailed and reasoned reconstruction of its evolution, i.e. one that investigates its theoretical necessities as well as its relationship with technology, sensibility, imagination and social metamorphoses. The paper therefore proposes an analytical scan of this evolution and a series of reflections on the relationship between technology and society with respect to the three phases of Stiegler’s thought. The analysis of care moves from symptomatology (symbolic misery) to pharmacology (politics of memory) and the concept of archi-cinema as an aesthetic and transcendental device, up to identify the task of thought with the care of memory and the planet.