Technics

“The technical system, the universal tendency that it carries, are no longer the partners of the ‘other systems’; the technical object lays down the law that is its own, it affirms an auto-nomy with regard to which, in the industrial age, the other layers of society must regulate themselves, with an actual possibility of negotiation. The indetermination of uses may well leave open possibilities for adjustments to the "system of objects," but at bottom the object bestows the horizon of all possibilities, essentially preceding the fixation of uses.” Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time pg. 72-74

Technics is a series of photographs depicting various technical equipment that explore the relationships between human evolution, memory, and technological advancement. Unlike other living beings, humans rely on externalized technical systems to transmit knowledge across generations. Tools, symbols, and other forms of technology become mediators of human consciousness. They transcended their immediate functionally and transform cultural norms, social structures, and individual subjectivity.

As technology advances at an increasingly rapid rate, the technology that shapes society becomes increasingly more abstract and concealed from the public. Technics explores our alienation from technology by reimagining commercial photographs of scientific equipment as technical systems with no clear function.

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