The Politics of Digital Pharmacology - Exploring the Craft of Collective Care

Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and forms of sociality; in the case of overdose, however, there is a risk of intoxication.
In this essay, Felix Heidenreich, Florian Weber-Stein, and, in a detailed interview, Bernard Stiegler analyze this complex change in our world and develop new skills to use digital pharmaka.

About the author

Florian Weber-Stein lehrt Politikwissenschaft und Politikdidaktik an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg.

Summary

Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and forms of sociality; in the case of overdose, however, there is a risk of intoxication.In this essay, Felix Heidenreich, Florian Weber-Stein, and, in a detailed interview, Bernard Stiegler analyze this complex change in our world and develop new skills to use digital pharmaka.

Product details

• Authors: Felix Heidenreich, Florian Weber-Stein
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9783837662498
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6249-8
• No. of pages: 126
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 10 mm x 150 mm
• Weight: 189 g
• Series: Edition Politik; Edition Politik 135
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Internet, Psychologie, Philosophie, Politik, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, TIME, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Technology, Media Studies, Digitalization, Politics, Sociology, Globalization, Philosophy of Language, Digital Media, Cultural Studies, Medicine, PHILOSOPHY / General, Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Political Ideologies, Human Rights, Political Science, Policy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, PHILOSOPHY / Social, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Pharmacy, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Social interaction, Philosophy, Psychology, International Relations, Political Theory, Political activism, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Humankind, Politics & government, Ethics & moral philosophy, Political structure & processes, Political structures: democracy, Social welfare & social services, Organizational theory & behaviour, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Social, group or collective psychology, Pharmacology, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie, Sociology: work & labour, Impact of science & technology on society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Population & demography, Medical Sociology, Consumerism, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology and anthropology, Constitution: government & the state, Central government policies, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Republicanism, Bernard Stiegler, Politischer Aktivismus / Politisches Engagement, Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen, Philosophy and psychology, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, The political process, Factors affecting social behavior, Social problems and services, Social processes, Systems of governments and states, Medicine and health, Data processing and computer science, Epistemology (Theory of knowledge), Occupational ethics, Civil and political rights, Ethics (Moral philosophy), Ethics of consumption, Pharmacology and therapeutics