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What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

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What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology - Stiegler, Bernard, and Ross, Daniel (Translated by)
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In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val???ry 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, ...

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What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology 2013, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745662718

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What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology 2013, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745662701

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