Source: Space (altered version) by Ryoji Ikeda.
“To the extent that memory is exteriorized, it is no longer the object of a practice, but of a consumption… the technical object is not a simple ‘tool’—it is a ‘pharmacont,’ both a cure and a poison. In the positive, it allows us to ‘know’ beyond our skin. In the negative, it produces a ‘generalized disadjustment,’ where the subject is emptied of their own ‘know-how’ (savoir-faire) and ‘know-how-to-live’ (savoir-vivre).” — Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1
“Proletarianization is the process by which a form of knowledge (savoir) is exteriorized into a technical system, such that the person who previously held this knowledge is stripped of it. This is no longer merely a loss of the ‘know-how’ of the worker, but a loss of the ‘know-how-to-live’ of the consumer. When we outsource our memory and our decisions to the machine, we are no longer the ‘subjects’ of our own lives, but the ‘objects’ of a technical marketing apparatus.” — Bernard Stiegler, For a New Critique of Political Economy (2010)
