Our tools shape our selves

Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age, technics is the defining feature of human experience Bryan Norton is a Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. His research focuses on media and the environment in German romanticism and idealism, in addition to contemporary philosophy, technology and art. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Planetary Idealism: the Technics of Nature in German Romanticism and editing a volume on Bernard Stiegler with Mark Hansen, titled Negentropic Orientations: Bernard Stiegler and the Future of the Digital. It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital … Continue reading Our tools shape our selves