New Media Technologies as Pharmacon

Abstract

This study, which involves two research areas that do not yet occupy enough space in the field of interest in the history of philosophy, namely the concepts of technology and Anthropocene, performs an analysis of how the world is evolving with technology, media technologies, and specifically the internet. The primary tools used in this research are the concepts and arguments of the phenomenological tradition and then the post-phenomenological philosophy and Stiegler philosophies. Since the medical, economic, political, cultural, and meaning-related crises of our age are now the crisis of the entire planet, especially in the Anthropocene Age, the causes and consequences of this crisis are studied. Our relationship with the technical object, which is at the very center of the crisis is examined thoroughly. As a result, therapeutic prescriptions for this inevitable pharmacological effect of technology have been revealed and explored on an ethical-political plane eventually.