Dare to Care: Between Stiegler’s Mystagogy and Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence Ed Cohen Philosophy is, for me, before anything else, to learn to repeat repe- titions that are good. To learn ways that the pharmakon, which is always that which repeats, does not destroy me or render me indif- ferent by its repetitions, but rather takes care of me ( me soigne). That is to say, individuates me, distinguishes me, differentiates me, . . . in order to permit me to discern in myself—to distinguish—alterity, difference [differ ance?], . . . the future. Philosophy is undertaken in order that these repetitions make a difference. —Bernard Stiegler (2014a) Philosophy takes care of me. It provides a therapeutic practice of the self, a repetition with a difference that opens me to the differ ance that hap- pens as I defer toward a future that differs in and from me. But how does such taking care happen? That’s where the mystery comes in. For a number of years, in his courses, seminars, lectures, and boundary 2 44:1 (2017) DOI 10.1215/01903659-3725917 © 2017 by Duke University Press Bernard Stiegler’s lecture “The Proletarianization of Sensibility,” published in this special issue, is cited parenthetically in the text as “Proletarianization.” boundary 2 Published by Duke University Press