Document Type
Article
Abstract
Via what matrix should the significance of September 11 be grasped? In 1994 Arakawa and Gins launched a form of thought that began by asking who or what you would be if you were parted from the ledge of a New York skyscraper. In the same year Stiegler commenced his own project, according to which the question of the "human" is the question of the articulation of the who with the what, a question which necessarily passes through a consideration of memory, and of mnemo-technical systems. This paper proposes to read Arakawa and Gins, and Stiegler, through the prism of September 11, and vice versa.
Repository Citation
Ross, Daniel. "Passages to Immortality: Arakawa and Gins, Stiegler, and September 11." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1–26. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss2/5