What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology Stiegler Bernard
What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology Stiegler Bernard In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val rywrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by theinstrumentalization of…
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What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology Stiegler Bernard
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val rywrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by theinstrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordinationof culture to profit. Theeconomy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-termgain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Recent events demonstrate all too clearlythat that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall.
Spiralling rates ofmental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is atbreaking point.Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, whichsystematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate.Returning to Marx's theory, Stiegler argues that consumerismmarks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. Advertisingtechnologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing usto idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living.
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