Abstract

Starting from the conceptual and methodological propositions (general organology and genealogy of aesthetics) contained in the two volumes of The Symbolic Misery, in the first part of this article we highlight their relationship to the subsequent developments of the Stieglerian philosophical trajectory, and we argue for the ecological-political relevance that these instances have at the time of platform capitalism. In the second part, the twofold Stieglerian pharmacological gesture will be exemplified through the analysis of the hyper-industrial becoming of contemporary societies: the critical investigation of the symptoms of psycho-social and environmental malaise of the present will serve as the ground for the creation of concepts and therapeutic practices aimed at counteracting the toxic effects caused by the new technologies enslaved to the short-term logics of capitalism. Finally, we analyze some of the propositions for a new hyper-industrial model based on capacitation (or deproletarianization) and intermittency within territorial experimentations which bare the possibility for an ecological (in the triple acceptations given by Félix Guattari) development model able to take care of localities beyond the capitalist realism motto of «there is no alternative».