Digitization is transforming our world economically culturally and psychologically. The
influx of new forms of communication networking and business opportunities as well as new
types of distraction self-observation and control into our societies represents an epochal
challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology Felix Heidenreich and Florian
Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed they can
enable new self-relationships and forms of sociality in the case of overdose however there
is a risk of intoxication. In this essay Felix Heidenreich Florian Weber-Stein and in a
detailed interview Bernard Stiegler analyze this complex change in our world and develop new
skills to use digital pharmaka.
