Technics and Time, 3 M E R I D I A N Crossing Aesthetics Werner Hamacher Editor Translated by Stephen Barker Stanford University Press Stanford California 11 TECHNICS AND TIME, 3 Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise Bernard Stiegler Stanford University Press Stanford, California English translation © 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Technics and Time, 3 was originally published in French under the title La Technique et le temps 3. Le Temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être de Bernard Stiegler © Éditions Galilée 2001. Ouvrage publié avec le soutien du Centre national du livre—ministère français chargé de la culture / This book has been published with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture—National Center for the Book. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stiegler, Bernard. [Temps du cinema et la question du mal-être. English] Technics and time, 3 : cinematic time and the question of malaise / Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Stephen Barker. p. cm. -— (Meridian, crossing aesthetics) “Originally published in French under the title La technique et le temps 3 : le temps du cinema et la question du mal-être.” Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8047-6167-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-6168-0 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Technology—Philosophy. 2. Time— Philosophy. I. Barker, Stephen Francis. II. Title. III. Title: Cinematic time and the question of malaise. IV. Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) T14.S74713 2011 303.48'3—dc22 2010021099 For Jacques Derrida Contents Notice xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 § 1 Cinematic Time 8 § 2 Cinematic Consciousness 35 § 3 I and We: The American Politics of Adoption 79 § 4 The Malaise of Our Educational Institutions 131 § 5 Making (the) Difference 157 § 6 Technoscience and Reproduction 187 Notes 5 Bibliography 51 ix