“We insist that the amateur’s role is an essential interlude in Stiegler’s somewhat inadvertent conformist slip into embracing the adult-shielded tradition. Here we claim that, most importantly, the hack is the fail-safe against the potential stubbornness of the ‘second moment’ intrinsic to double epokhal redoubling. We refer to the inevitable dogmatic moment (Stiegler, 2017, p. 26) of interiorizing the drives against the threat of externalization, which may tend towards ‘herd stupidity,’ the capability to ‘produce rationalizations as camouflage of motives and resistance’ (Stiegler, 2015, pp. 82-83). Stupidity becomes stabilized as actualized forms of knowledge, thought, and desire, apropos ‘the subject who inherits the exteriorized’ (p. 109), which feed on algorithmic governmentality.
One positive pharmacology that can withstand this dogmatic appeal of interiorization is the amateur’s unprincipledness, the hack’s willingness to problematize ‘the question of knowing what it means to think’ (p. 152). The question also becomes the issue of exteriorization for the amateur. In conclusion, I claim here that the amateur not only forms a crucial interval in Stiegler’s works (albeit, a rare occasion in Stiegler’s writings) but is first and foremost the necessary agent and dis- agent of individuation and transindividuation tasked with generating new conditions for tertiary retention, or as Stiegler argues, ‘new forms of interiorization … amounting to so many chances to struggle against the planetary-scale pharmacological crisis with which we are currently afflicted’ (2020, p. 72). Nowhere is this task more compelling, albeit riddled with challenges, than in education formation, training, and specialization, which are essential pathways to cultural flourishing. Suffice to say, the state, the public, and the amateurs’ community are vital stakeholders in this cultural conversion, revolution, and play.”
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 