CONCEPT
Politics of Care
Stiegler's political program — not policy prescription but comprehensive reorientation — centered on maintaining the organological coordination required for human individuation within technical milieus.
The politics of care is Stiegler's name for a political orientation adequate to the pharmacological condition. It is not a program of specific policies but a comprehensive reorientation of political life around the imperative of maintaining the conditions under which human individuation is possible in a technical milieu that tends to erode those conditions. The politics of care requires educational institutions cultivating pharmacological knowledge alongside technical competence; economic structures valuing contribution rather than mere output; governance frameworks sensitive to the pace of technical transformation. It is political because it cannot be achieved through individual practice alone; it requires collective institutional construction.
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The concept extends care from individual practice to political orientation. Individual care cannot survive within institutions that systematically reward its opposite. The quarterly arithmetic that says 'five can do the work of a hundred' is a political fact, not merely an economic one — it embodies a specific choice about how productivity gains are distributed, and that choice is made