What Makes Life Worth Living On Pharmacology

Name: What Makes Life Worth Living On Pharmacology
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ISBN: 9780745662718

ISBN-10: 0745662714

ISBN-13: 9780745662718

Edition: 2013

Authors: Bernard Stiegler, Daniel Ross

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In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short–term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed–down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point. Underlying these multiple…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.52" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Pharmacology of Spirit



Apocalypse Without God



Pathogenesis, Normativity and the 'Infidelity of the Milieu'



Pharmacology of Nuclear Fire, Generalized Automation and Total Proletarianization



Pharmacology of Nihilism



The Thing, Kenosis and the Power to Infinitize



Pharmacology of Capital



Economizing Means Taking Care: The Three Limits of Capitalism



Pharmacology of the Question



The Time of the Question



Disposable Children


Notes and References


Index