Abstract:
Bernard Stiegler depicts technics as the human’s tertiary memory retention generating a
pharmakon with both curative and malignant potential. He additionally rues the posthuman
epoch’s depletion of a ‘time of the question’: revealed in the prevalent inaptitude for wisdom –
scilicet long-term acuity. We offer Christian liturgy as an abeyant psychotechnique arcing the
current pharmakon to cure through soliciting a ‘time of the question’. Rejuvenating Christian
liturgy as a psychotechnique can bolster a broader societal ‘time of the question’. Firstly, we
describe technic’s du jour mise on scène. Secondly, we constrain Christian liturgies as complex
systems incorporating malleability, temporality, and instability. Thirdly, we imagine Christian
liturgy as empty tradition allowing amateur repetition of ancient art enticing a ‘time of the
question’.
