Stigler's Theory On Techno-Pharmacology Studies

One of Stigler's basic ideas is that "technics is always a pharmakon." The idea of "techno-pharmacology" is an important part of Stigler's philosophy of technology,and also serves as a method guide for his criticism of contemporary digital capitalism.Stigler compared technics to pharmakon.The efficacy and toxicity of technics are two sides of the same coin.The ambiguous of efficacy and toxicity of drugs is also the nature of technics.Stigler constructed his own technical philosophy hypothesis from the perspective of Greek mythology.Human beings are from the origin of a defective existence,must rely on the survival of the representative,the human nature is technical and fatality.The nature of human beings and the living environment are destined to open the future of human beings in the uncertainty.Stiegler's thought on techno-pharmacology inherits the essence of Derrida's deconstruction and differance.Derrida deconstructs "Plato's pharmacy" and comes to the conclusion that grammata are ambiguous,while the differance expresses the resistance to all centers.Stigler puts the evolution of human and technics in the grammatization,which becomes the history of all forms of memory externalization,and today it is the history of digital reading.The toxicity of digital technology has led to the general "proletarianization" of human beings.People have lost the knowledge of how to do and the knowledge of how to perceive life.Stigler presented general organology and economic contributions as an attempt to address technological toxicity.The main content of stigler's general organology is to construct the system of body and mind,technology and organization.Stigler's techno-pharmacology theory has both theoretical and practical significance.On the one hand,the study of this idea is helpful for us to understand technology from a dynamic perspective.The attribute efficacy andtoxicity of technology are mutually influenced and transformed,and the attribute of technology is ambiguous.On the other hand,it is beneficial for us to better deal with a series of problems brought by today's technology.As a technology philosophy theory,techno-pharmacology can analyze specific technical problems in reality.However,stigler's idea of techno-pharmacology also has its limitations.For examble,The suggestion of contribution economy proposed by stigler under the guidance of techno-pharmacology needs to be viewed critically.Although contribution economy has positive practical significance,the conditions for its realization are in danger of utopia.