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Originary technicity

In the art work “Building Blocks” by Kumi Yamashita a shadow renders a human figure. However, the shadow does not originate from a human being but from children’s building block. This nicely expresses the insight in the philosophy of technology that the history of human existence is bound up with technology. Originary technicity, according to Stiegler; artificial by nature, so Plessner.