For Bernard Stiegler, technics is the externalization of memory. The first form of memory, characteristic of the most primitive forms of life, involves the transmission of genetic information transgenerationally. The second form of memory, secondary retention, characteristic of more advanced forms of life, involves the ability to repeat and vary within strict limitations, certain operational sequences: this form of memory gained from learning about the limits of given operational sequences, does not extend beyond the individual organism, except to the extent that the individual organism might alter the environment within which other organisms operate. Finally, there is the specifically human form of memory, tertiary retention, in which memory is exteriorized and made relatively permanent through some kind of inscription upon some matter. Here, Stiegler draws upon Derridean “differance,” according to which each mark or “gramme” takes its reality or “meaning” from its difference from and deferral of other marks or inscriptions.
"This is the telos inscribed in information theory, even insofar as it’s presented as a purely neutral attempt to understand communication."
It would also be Gans's originary scene (before the introduction of the notion of firstness) i.e History opening and closing in one movement without a a residue.
"This is the telos inscribed in information theory, even insofar as it’s presented as a purely neutral attempt to understand communication."
It would also be Gans's originary scene (before the introduction of the notion of firstness) i.e History opening and closing in one movement without a a residue.