Beardsworth, Derrida & the Political, London/New York, Routledge, 1996, p100: 'Time is the (self-)deferment of time'; Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of
Epimetheus, op.
The Fault of
Epimetheus, to a more flexible approach focusing on rhythmic programs and aesthetics in Time and Technics, 2.
The subtitle of the first volume of Technics and Time, The Fault of
Epimetheus refers to the myth of the titans Prometheus and
Epimetheus first philosophically recounted by Plato in his dialogues the Protagoras and Meno.
(7.) Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of
Epimetheus, Stanford, Stanford University Press,1998, p199.
Epimetheus, being rash and impulsive, quickly created many animals, giving each of them one skill at a time.
This NASA image released March 28, 2019, shows how during super-close flybys of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft inspected the mini-moons Pan and Daphnis in the A ring; Atlas at the edge of the A ring; Pandora at the edge of the F ring; and
Epimetheus, which is bathed in material that fans out from the moon Enceladus, the mini-moons' diameter ranges from 5 miles (8 kilometers) for Daphnis to 72 miles (116 kilometers) for
Epimetheus, the rings and the moons depicted in this illustration are not to scale.
Epimetheus was brother to Prometheus, the rebel titan who championed and, by some accounts, created humankind.
As such, we can only follow Bernard Stiegler's arguments in the volume, The Fault of
Epimetheus, when he says that technics is 'constitutive of temporality as well as spatiality' (Technics and Time I, p17).
Similarly, at the sight of Pandora in the Theogony, "amazement held immortal gods and mortal men" (588) and, in the Works and Days,
Epimetheus cannot resist accepting her as a present from Zeus (85-89).
The confusion was not cleared up until Saturn's rings were again edgewise to our view, in 1979-80: another new moon, later named
Epimetheus, and Janus travel in much the same orbit.