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Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension -- disastrously -- or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms. Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler's project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today -- and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.' Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany

Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension ? disastrously ? or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms. Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler?s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today ? and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.? Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany

"""Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension – disastrously – or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms."" Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge ""This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler’s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes.  What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today – and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.’"" Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany"

""Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension – disastrously – or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms."" Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge ""This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler’s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes.  What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today – and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.’"" Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany

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Bernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His many books in English include Technics and Time, For a New Critique of Political Economy, The Decadence of Industrial Democracies and Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals.

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