Running Wild: Temporality at the Speed of Light
Running Wild: Temporality at the Speed of Light

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines temporality in the information age, drawing on the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler, and Hubert Dreyfus. By re-investigating the analysis of the Being of equipment in "Being and Time", the paper argues that Heidegger not only unwittingly foresees the future of technological planetarization but also touches on the question of ‘real-time’ in the use of tools. Retrospectively, Stiegler radically re-elaborates on this question through the figures of Prometheus and Epimetheus, who give the structure of temporality in the name of what he called tertiary retention. However, the paper will show that when one thinks of the determination posed by modern algorithms in machine learning, the question of the future becomes significant. What characterizes the power of intelligent machines is the predictability of the future. However, this is not the spontaneous and subjective anticipation of the individual,but rather leads to the degeneration of the synthesis of reason and various misunderstandings of intelligence. Therefore, the paper suggests rearticulating the light-speed temporal dimension, emphasizing its relevance to concrete technologies and its ongoing significance for cognition in the digital era.

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