Like Simondon, Stiegler points out that although “human nature” likes to think of itself as something pre- or non-technological, the very possibilities of self-reflection, self-expression and self-consciousness are dependent on technologies of inscription; without this technology there can be no continuity of self-awareness across time, no means of commemorating the past or anticipating the future, and no means of transmitting such knowledge from one generation to the next. In a powerful extension of a Derridean “logic of the supplement” into our anthropological pre-history, Stiegler thus
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