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Pill Pod 119 - Bernard Stiegler & Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Plato's Phaedrus

In Plato's Phaedrus, a god comes to an Egyptian king Thamis and he says yo I got this gift for you It's going to improve your memory. The word far macan in greek is far macan where we get pharmacy. So it's a pill that creates memory is writing Um, but it also destroys memory. Anything that is a cure can also be a poison And this is true of medicine pills You can die from taking the wrong medicine as this even though it's something that is supposed to be curing. We have now a double a double meaning of far macan of proletarianization In terms of grammatization  and we are in a post class

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