Galley Beggars in Paris
Eloise and Sam aka Galley Beggar Press in Paris, following Lucy Ellmann‘s wonderful appearance at Shakespeare and Company yesterday.
Stiegler’s Memory: Tertiary Retention and Temporal Objects
The fact that we can experience one temporal object a multitude of times implies that the temporal object is not merely remembered through primary retention; in fact, the very idea of perceiving the exact same temporal object numerous times implies some kind of technical reproduction e.g. a recording device (either analogue or digital). Thus, Stiegler’s main line of argument suggests that as we can experience a melody multiple times, and our experience of that melody changes depending on the multitude of times we experience it, we must therefore have a form of technical retention, or ‘tertiary retention’ in which the repeatability of a temporal object becomes possible. Our primary retention is also therefore dependant on both the secondary and tertiary forms of retention.
By Matt Bluemink.