Life, Death, Technics - John Stewart and Philosophy

This text first evokes the way in which John Stewart refuses reductionism in biology while working on a mathematical formalisation of autopoiesis, and then the way in which Bernard Stiegler, as a philosopher, and moreover as a philosopher of constitutive technics, discusses undertakings of this type. This text then extends the discussions thus set up between life and death, and betweeen sciences of cognition and philosophy, by a reading of J. Derrida's seminar La vie la mort.