ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that human productive imagination is always-already externalized. Digital technologies are one of the privileged places where the schematism takes place nowadays. Paul Ricoeur has never explicitly devoted an entire work to the issue of imagination. However, many scholars have noticed the relevance that this notion had in his thought. The French philosopher has developed his theory of the threefold mimesis in the last volume of Time and Narrative. Ricoeur makes of schematism something that happens in the exteriority of linguistic forms such as symbols, metaphors, and narratives. The chapter applies the notion of productive imagination to the context of digital technologies. Bernard Stiegler’s theses are interesting not just because he specifically refers to imagination, but also because he has a critical attitude toward the issue of human technological extensions and hybridizations.
