given at the Tate Modern art gallery in 2004, Stiegler summarized his understanding of individuation. The essential points are the following:

*The I, as a psychic individual, can only be thought in relationship to we, which is a collective individual. The I is constituted in adopting a collective tradition, which it inherits and in which a plurality of I 's acknowledge each other's existence.
*This inheritance is an adoption, in that I can very well, as the French grandson of a German immigrant,