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Cultuig te Pharmakon ?

There are cerain questions that, while they have resonance

throughout the hsto of phiosophy, assume particuar sig



CULTUG TE PHARMAKON?

T probm posd by t sopsts s not dpndnt on any

trns qual tat mgt b attrbutd to tm but ratr on

r lak of t tat s prsy t staof t ts usd

o qua tm On mgt vn stat tat t sopst mbod

s ts nstabty mor tan produs t and t rurnt omparson of t sopst t tparak, a drg tatay at as a poson or a rmdy larly rlts ts T lak

a stabl and l dtrmnd attrbut s t problm posd

by any parak, by any drg os t an mutat ntos oppost dpndng on t dos t rumstans or tontxt any drg os aton provds no garant dns

nxd pont of rfrn tat ould ao us to rognz and

drstand ts fts t som assuran

T quston of t paak s not unqu to t trad



" CULTRING HE PAMAKO?

e ot oy the hers of Pato but those phosophers who, wng the sophsts, were used as an argument to demon ate the need or a foundaton. What, n Patos text can beea as a neork of anaoges soatng the terrbe nstab

of the sophst has today spt nto a number of modern practces" (scentc medca, potca technoogcapsychoanac, pedagogca) that have been ntroduced just as Patonc phosophy n ts tme as dsquang ther othercharatan popust, deooge astrooger, magcan, hypnotst,

charsmatc teachert s possbeand temptngto do to modern practces

what was successfuy done wth Pato, who was shown by eudte readers to entean an uneasy reatonshp to the sophsts

he deounced Just as the sophsts used Pato to promote ther t h th t th t f t h h



CLTRN TE PAMAO? : )

' nonmoen theapeutc pactces Thee s notg neu

about the eton of the nsstent gue of the phaa

m as a symptom n the hea of whateve tes to stngsh ef fom t; t s o enton the one we have constcte by

'nstuctng the pactces that have squae an theefoeansfome f not estoye the tatona ways n whch ths sabty we assocate wth the phaao was manage

Ths etou though the sophst an the phamako obv0usy ampes what I have cae the factshstc popostonn enabes us to bette ent the chaenge Fo f the ques

on want to pesent s that of the pesence among us of phys csts an othe constctos of factshes t seems obvous that s queston s ouby phamacoogca Fst because f we

ave to speak of factshes wth espect to some of ou ouc



CULTURING THE PAMAO

Lao wo ca he c" of facishes whee c efes o a celebaio of he ee ha bigs a w beig o a ew meho of measeme io exisece a o cle he pacceof esabishig eaioships The phamacoogica isabii

of o facishes, hei eible abiy o fee he eal obsessio wih he opposiioal ifeeiaio ha makes s iqe a epeaey leas s o assig hem a powe hey o o hae, hepowe o isqai pacces a qesios ha o coce hem aeay coespos o a ki of c. Poemics a is

qalicaio ae elaioships a a compoe of pacices.The physiciss ocaio" efe by Plack alhogh i appeas o isolae him coais he e opposie of ha isoaio, amely, he coscio of a posiio of jgme ha gies he

physia wo he powe o asce all ohe eaiies. The



CLTRNG HE AAKO 3

enngs do not trnscend te stuton n queston te ot consttute ts ntegbe trth Te re bout te pro on o new relatons that ae ae to stuton red pro ed b mutpcit of retions And tose retions cn so

. ed in terms of ue euton nd menngTere is ten no substntie dference between te eco

c situtions studed b ecoogists nd tose tt stre brng ino exstence the strgges conducted in te nme, ' ecoogc ues just s tere is no substnte dference

ween the ues eutions nd menngs creted wen 'er prstc reton is trnsformed into smbotic reo or wen prste tt destros ts ost too efcent s

minted nd te ues eutons nd menngs t te

rt of ecoogc debtes n fct tere s hrd n ecoog i E h h b d b



34 CLTRG T PAMAKO?

temptatin t cnceive f natre as sbmissive maniplabeassimiabe t sme raw material" n whch we wl be free t impse whatever rganizatn e chse.

Ecl is nt a scence f fnctins The pplatns whse

mes f entangle cexstence it escrbes are nt fy ene by the respective rles they pay in that entangement n sch a way that we cl ece the ientty f each n the basis f its

rle. This re s by enitn metastable" that s t say nt garantee against sme pssibe instabiity t s the prct f bcolage a we can say f whch s that it wrs mre r

ess" an nt f a calcatn whse ecnmy an gic wl have t be isclse relatively interepenen pplatins nt mae a system in the sense that they cl be ene

as pars f a large whle The pint f view that allws s t



CUR HE AMAKO?

S secdary mus be addressed immedately whether tssequeces are teal r ufresee. Huma scet s are always suscetible t rducig a justica fr wat ey uderg, f trasfrmg ter ives t rms, ad

gettg the rce ad fr teir cces. Hwever, becauser the csrcti f quesis ad wledge rduced by

lgcal ractces a ew id f mem has cme t beg em f the uieial rcesses tat i te as were

e brig abu e dsaearace f ctes emires r civi

ats, ad f the ravages caused by ur smistc idustrald eve sciefc," sraeges (te DDT srae") And ths em is w art f he rese. I tat sese, we ca say a ur reset is cultivatg te grwt f harmacgical

wedge," a sciece f rcesses where gd tets rs g i dsasers ad terms f whch aci has a



CLTURNG THE PAMAO?

o refer specfcay o the exsence of he oher II he spe cc sraegies" of mmetic efense empoye by the caerpi ar refer to he cogne" abiies of he bir ha hreaens i bu seems that for he br the caerpar is just one kn

of prey among others. he efniton of he parasie ncues a knowege" of the means o nae its prey, but his prey appears to mpl enure he parastes aack Boh the caerpar an the parasite exst n a way tha afrms he exisenceof their respectie other, but he opposie oes not appear to be

rueat east as far as we know a present n conrast we can speak of reciproc capure wheneer a al process of ientity construco s prouce regaress of he manner an usu ay n ways t are compeey iferen, entes tha con

ent ne ano er each inegrate a reference o he other for heirb In h f mbi i thi f i f



LTNG THE PAMKO? :17

d thn hav t anwrd nt y a tati diagn ut y tin vau and vau ratn that th gia 1tn what unt and ud unt r that rati In > wrd itay raming ath d nt y

r uin in th na tia vau ut an rd thrugh th imannt qutin th way in whih ach rat dn t ratinhi t thr that i t ay nt t t th thr

a rut th rtiv an rati

quir that w d nt vw vau a that in wh nathing an id r mut atd Ony huanOi arh at in th na vau and ntrat th wth 't But and th hd tru r huan a w a nn

an th creaton of value annt untn n thi rgitr iti Th i ti t th t



CLRNG HE AMAK

atag po of rcproca captr? Ys crta h sstha hr w ha h coo of a bg ad hos whosrqrms t has satsd h ro xsts for phscss ad somwhat dfr th phscsts xs for th

ro. Thr do ow cds th qsos ad spc aos athorzd b th xsc of th ro Th bt of cproca capr s o ab s o drsad hs for" h strog ss of h cocostrcto of d rahr ha

th wak ss whch cod b rdcd o a smp coo

To ths dstcto bw srog ss ad wak sscorrspods th sa mag of th two trms costrctst"ad ratst Toda th rspc s of ths rms s far from d I s h rm ratst" o qa th rdcto

st oto (th o wod only xs ra o h phs ) d h t t" t th t th



LTRNG TH PAMK )

(d s I sttvism by its tea has ay tth n that the eets t dues it des t i tself have te

we t ust ay desi eve tat the ae the evet stitutes the stablati a atie a klede a

v y aal egy has austmed us t sde that ies a be said t be adated" deedety f a suess bet the eatsis t mht have wth the seies ad shaed evmet lsts have had t st du

g eeal deits that tased stuatis But this has

o dameed the teest i the suess" eeed t by the<etve adapted the ablity t elebate the sa asseme eaied by evey iveted sy O the ta the te has beme easily sia as they beme me

'tve t the vaiety mdes elal stabltyTh f t l t h th



URG THE PMO?

of an ecolo of ideas" has the defect of mistaing beings whoare selfsufcient, not put at ris by the word, for actors hat

is why it cuminates quite conentionally, in the expectation of a conersion. if by miracle, ideas woud become toler

ant" of one another, capabe of coexisting angeicay of lucidy recognizing that they are, in fact, ony ideas"A for the ecoo of practices, it must state what it is that diferentiates practiceand idea practices cannot, any more than ling beings, address

a sient word, the docile substrate of conictions and interpre

tations; their mode of existence is reational and constrained, not hallucinato or isionary; their aatars do not refer to a more genera authority for whom they would be a ocal transla ion, but to a here and now they fabricate and which maes them

possbleH th ti f i l t i t b d t



CLRNG AMAKO? 0 'gca cstucs, ke the subway, ae esge t feety wecme aye whehe sck taes wes f Gaa, the y assumt beg that ey ca ea a

I l a ma. T gas the seccy f facshes he ccet

"I ecca caue whch aes t subway es as we as 1 e maufactues f facshes must be quafe s ta s vaece ca be bke

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