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Item Details
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TAKING CARE OF YOUTH AND THE GENERATIONS
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| By: |
Bernard Stiegler |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804762732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804762731 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2010 |
| Series: |
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries. |
| Synopsis: |
Bernard Stiegler works systematically through the current crisis in education and family relations resulting from the mesmerizing power of marketing technologies. He contends that the greatest threat to social and cultural development is the destruction of young people's ability to pay critical attention to the world around them. This phenomenon, prevalent throughout the first world, is the calculated result of technical industries and their need to capture the attention of the young, making them into a target audience and reversing the relationship between adults and children.Taking Care exposes the carelessness of these industries and urges the reader to re-enter the "battle for intelligence" against the drive-oriented culture of short-term ("short-circuited") attention characteristic of the negative aspects of the new technologies. Long-term attention, Stiegler shows, produces retentions of cultural memory mandatory for social development-and for the counteracting of ADD and ADHD. Examining the history of education from Plato to the current quagmires in France and the United States, he tracks the notion of critical thinking from its Enlightenment apotheosis to its current eradication. Stiegler is unique in combining the most radical of theoretical constructs-such as "grammatization"-with quite traditional values, values he proposes we re-address in our not-so-brave new world. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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