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In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness. However, philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century abandoned the critique of political economy, and poststructuralism left its heirs helpless and disarmed in face of the reign of stupidity and an economic crisis of global proportions. New theories and concepts are required today to think through these i

Destruction of the juvenile's psychic apparatus -- The battle of intelligence for maturity -- Mysteries and drives from Aufklärung to psychopower -- The synapogenesis of attention's destruction -- The therapeutics and pharmacology of attention -- Economy and cognition of attention; or the confusion of attention with retention -- What is philosophy? -- Biopower, psychopower, and grammatization -- Disciplines and pharmacologies of knowledge -- Oikonomia in the object of all attentions -- From the twentieth century to our own times--if we have time