International Panel on Bernard Stiegler's Philosophy of Education (date TBA) Thanks to my counterpart in Winchester, UK, and Teikyo, Japan

Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention (E-print) at

Excerpt: "The irreducible inconsistency of the default universal is no different from the supersensible. The Kantian noumenon acquires a full-blown noetic status under the unprincipled noetic act and through the subjective interests of reason, making the ‘supersensible cognizable practically’ (Pluhar in Kant, 1987, xlvii). The amateur imparts the noumenon a distinctive performative value; here, we … Continue reading Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention (E-print) at

On Stiegler and Tertiary Retention (forthcoming)

“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. … Continue reading On Stiegler and Tertiary Retention (forthcoming)

Quick thoughts on B. Stiegler (work in progress)

Firstly, concerning a recent Deleuzian provocation, from Claire Colebrook‘s 2017 essay ascribing Stiegler’s philosophy a “curious problem of range,” we may consider analyzing the point about Stiegler’s forays into digital studies, which, from the perspective of a deconstructive persona, according to Colebrook, makes him an “unprincipled thinker.” Can this description hold outside of the interpretive … Continue reading Quick thoughts on B. Stiegler (work in progress)

Short of A Transcritique

How does one explore a hermeneutic reading of nature that expands the Kantian theory of aesthetics beyond the need for beauty to support the final subjective interest of reason? As in Kant’s third Critique, this subjective interest must necessarily culminate in establishing the purposiveness of nature by moral intelligence. The recoil to subjective purposiveness demonstrates that … Continue reading Short of A Transcritique