Mind-Body-Technology: ‘Nosce te Ipsum’ and a theory of prosthetic ‘trialism’

This chapter will discuss a profound and fundamental interrelationship between mind, body and technology in terms of what it means to be ‘human’, or, what ‘being’ human might mean. One historical, yet enduring, theory of the human subject is René Descartes’s philosophy of the mind distinct from the body – this is termed ‘Cartesian dualism’. Whilst this is a classical, if outmoded, model of conceiving of a philosophy of the subject, it also provides a useful conceptual framework through which to critique, and arrive at, a different concept of how the terms ‘mind’ and ‘body’ might operate. For example, the mind/body binary distinction can be interrogated and deconstructed to accommodate the role of technology as having an ontologically embedded position within the very definition of ‘humanity’. Indeed, ‘anthropogenesis’ – the very becoming of humanity – might instead incorporate the role of technological prosthesis to any mind/body dualism in defining the ‘human subject’. We will propose that this ‘dualism’ should be reconsidered for a fundamentally entangled mind-body-technology ‘trialism’ in the emergence of a distinct human being. However, at the same time, this interconnected relationship is also the object of power and control

Du grain à moudre sur les Néandertaliens.

Des outils domestiques, perdus pendant 35 ans, trouvés par André Leroi-Gourhan lors de ses fouilles de la grotte du Renne à Arcy-sur-Cure, apportent un éclairage nouveau sur les comportements des derniers Néandertaliens et sur leurs relations avec les premiers hommes modernes parvenus en Europe

Rousseau, Stiegler and the aporia of origin

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Cinema as mnemotechnics

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Tecnicidad, conocimientos y virtualización; de Leroi-Gourhan a Serres

En este escrito se insiste en anclar la tecnicidad en el zócalo zoológico de la condición humana y se define la “tecnología” como el desarrollo de las técnicas de bajas energías o del discurso, co-presentes a las técnicas económicas. Así mismo se afianza la arqueología del saber occidental como el estudio de los grandes acontecimientos  de formateo del espíritu: la escritura, la imprenta, las redes sociales. Comunicar, transmitir, educar, instruir… como acciones de lo virtual

Is an archaeological contribution to the theory of social science possible? Archaeological data and concepts in the dispute between Jean-Claude Gardin and Jean-Claude Passeron

The issue of the definition and position of archaeology as a discipline is examined in relation to the dispute which took place from 1980 to 2009 between the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin and the sociologist Jean-Claude Passeron. This case study enables us to explore the actual conceptual relationships between archaeology and the other sciences (as opposed to those wished for or prescribed). The contrasts between the positions declared by the two researchers and the rooting of their arguments in their disciplines are examined: where the sociologist makes use of his philosophical training, the archaeologist relies mainly on his work on semiology and informatics. Archaeology ultimately plays a minor role in the arguments proposed. This dispute therefore cannot be considered as evidence for the movement of concepts between archaeology and the social sciences. A blind spot in the debate, relating to the ontological specificities of archaeological objects, nevertheless presents itself as a possible way of implementing this movement

Luxury or necessity?

Is beauty a result of functionality?La beauté résulte-t-elle de la fonction

Entre gratuité et nécessité.

Is beauty a result of functionality?La beauté résulte-t-elle de la fonction

"Hazardous zones" within "security perimeter": comparative study on the material of folkloric discourse

The article considers the concept of "house" as a core element of "security perimeter" (the term by A. Leroy-Gourhan) on the material of English, Russian and Scottish ballad