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Pharmakon is the name of the Danish College of Pharmacy Practice.
Pharmakon may also refer to:
- Pharmakon (philosophy), a composite concept denoting remedy, poison, and scapegoat
- Pharmakon (novel), a 2008 novel by Dirk Wittenborn
- Pharmakon (film), a 2012 Albanian film
- Pharmakon (band), an experimental/noise project by Margaret Chardiet
Pharmakon is a 2008 novel written by the author Dirk Wittenborn. Though fictional, it was greatly influenced by Wittenborn's relationship with his father, who was a psychopharmacologist.
Pharmakon is a 2012 Albanian drama film directed by Joni Shanaj. The film was selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Pharmakon is a solo industrial noise project of Margaret Chardiet, located in New York City and formed in 2007.
Pharmakon, in philosophy and critical theory, is a composite of three meanings: remedy, poison, and scapegoat. The first and second senses refer to the everyday meaning of pharmacology (and to its sub-field, toxicology), deriving from the Greek source term φάρμακον (phármakon), denoting any drug, while the third sense refers to the pharmakos ritual of human sacrifice. A further sub-sense of pharmakon as remedy which is of interest to some current authors is given by the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek–English Lexicon as "a means of producing something".
In recent philosophical work, the term centers on Jacques Derrida's " Plato's Pharmacy", and the notion that writing is a pharmakon. Whereas a straightforward view on Plato's treatment of writing (in Phaedrus) suggests that writing is to be rejected as strictly poisonous to the ability to think for oneself in dialog with others (i.e. to anamnesis), Bernard Stiegler argues that "the hypomnesic appears as that which constitutes the condition of the anamnesic"—in other words, externalised time-bound communication is necessary for original creative thought, in part because it is the primordial support of culture.
Michael Rinella has written a book-length review of the pharmakon within a historical context, with an emphasis on the relationship between pharmakoi in the standard drug sense and the philosophical understanding of the term.