Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0804762732 ISBN13: 9780804762731 Release Date: March 2010 Publisher: Stanford University Press Length: 264 Pages Weight: 0.84 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9" Bernard Stiegler works systematically through the current crisis in education and family relations resulting from the mesmerizing power of marketing technologies. He contends that the greatest threat to social and cultural development is the destruction of young people's ability to pay critical attention to the world around them. This phenomenon, prevalent throughout the first world, is the calculated result of technical industries and their need to capture the attention of the young, making them into a target audience and reversing the relationship between adults and children. Taking Care exposes the carelessness of these industries and urges the reader to re-enter the "battle for intelligence" against the drive-oriented culture of short-term ("short-circuited")