La funzione simbolica della tecnica: mondo sensibile e noetica in Bernard Stiegler

Stiegler's conception of the technical object, which is undeniably influenced by Simondon, attributes to it a fundamental symbolic function that underpins the political bond. The symbolic misery of the hyper-industrial age arises from a catastrophe of the sensible—specifically, a collapse of the symbolic into the domain of the sensible, reducing it to the audiovisual and mere aisthesis. In contrast, the symbolic demands a transition to the noetic realm, which, according to Stiegler, is made possible through the retentive function of the technical object. In the text, the different forms of retention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) are linked to distinct views of reality: monoscopic, stereoscopic, and telescopic, respectively. It is only through the symbolic function—mediated by the hypomnesic nature of the technical object—that a multidimensional view, essential to the noetic and to critique, becomes possible. In the final part of the essay, this geometrical deepening of the relationship to the technical object, rooted in its symbolic function and enabling critique, is interpreted as a “Keplerian revolution.” This revolution is un￾derstood as a reformulation of Kant’s Copernican revolution, reconfiguring our conceptual framework through the technical object’s symbolic mediation.