The Age of Thinking Writing
The Age of Thinking Writing

Summary/Abstract: One can trace the challenge to philosophy represented by the technical evolution of the ‘human sciences’ or ‘conjectural sciences’ in the diverging ways by which it is treated in the texts of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan and others, during the mid to late 1960s. Derrida is writing partly in explicit response to the counterchallenge towards technology represented by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In this article, I analyse the relationship between an emergent notion of historicity and the historically emerging techno-sciences as a way of putting the question of the age into relief. The question concerns the current role of philosophy in a heritage still awkwardly divided between a residually existential philosophical tradition and a cybernetic influence in contemporary cultural, political, and technological affairs.

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