Talk:Pharmakon (philosophy)

As I note on the talk page for Indeterminacy_(philosophy), the notion of pharmakon needs to be defined separately. It is not a term that means "a concept that has some indeterminacy", as one might gather from the disambiguation page. The disambiguation page should point here, instead. A suitable one-line definition is:


 * "any treatment that is both a poison and a remedy"

Arided (talk) 20:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

another interesting paper, this one about addiction
Promise and Deceit: Pharmakos, Drug Replacement Therapy, and the Perils of Experience.

Arided (talk) 03:09, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

therapeutics and attention
It's interesting (in the "media philosophy" example) to note that therapeutics means care, which Stiegler emphasizes is closely related to attention. So there's something a bit meta about a therapeutics addressed towards a pharmacology of attention. Arided (talk) 21:24, 19 January 2016 (UTC)