The Politics of Spirit in Stiegler's Techno-Pharmacology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Abbinnett (0000-0001-9854-3967, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 65-80 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276414536748 |
| OpenAlex | W2328358780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article begins by examining the concept of the pharmakon that is developed in Derrida's essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', as it is here that the idea of a medium that is simultaneously poisonous and therapeutic is developed in relation to the discursive effects of writing. The author then goes on to look at Stiegler's attempt to reconfigure the 'orthographic economy' of deconstruction, particularly his account of how the 'tertiary supports' of virtual and information technologies have transformed the experience of the real in the regime of global capitalisation. Finally, he argues that the appearance of the pharmakon as a matrix idea in his work, sharpens his account of the aporia of technological society: for the impossibility of human culture being reduced to either the disorientated life industrial populism, or to idealist notions of reflexivity, is what, for Stiegler, offers the chance of a new politics of spirit
Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Impossibility · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |