«What I say, you say» On Bernard Stiegler’s philosophical expression

This article aims to trace the implicit relationships between a series of conceptual foci, ignited by Bernard Stiegler at different stages of his philosophical career, through the interpretation of five phrases that we consider emblematic of his thought. This reconstruction of Stiegler’s thought through its idiomaticity is based on the observation that certain expressions from Stiegler’s conceptual framework function as centers of resonance, through which it becomes possible to rigorously summarize the philosopher’s principal operations. While some of these expressions, emblematic and recurring, are immediately interpretable to the point that it could be said that they hermetically represent the entirety of Stiegler’s perspective or one of its phases, some other, which are rarer, require deeper hermeneutic work to be fully explicated. However, these latter expressions, thanks to their evocative power, function as a privileged key to unpack the problematic folds, the knots yet to be untied, and the objectives that remain on the horizon of Stiegler’s conceptual operations. In this regard, the title of the article reports one of these most singular expressions, which in the text represents both the heart of Stiegler’s methodology and philosophical gesture, and the conceptual juncture that allows to move from the first phase of the author’s thought to the subsequent ones.