Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts
the drug attention industrial complex in education
$81.44
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2025
Summary
Smart Drugs, Screen Addiction, and the Attention Economy: How Big Pharma and Tech are Shaping Our Youth
With this book, Kenneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the center of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates.
Saltman describes the material stakes in what he calls the ed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350439993 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350439991 |
| Series: | Critical Directions In Education, Technology, And Politics, Critical Directions in Education, Technology, and Politics |
| Author: | Kenneth J. Saltman |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 136mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Vividly written, richly theorized and uncomfortably familiar, this timely book documents the rise of the attention economy and the bio-political capture of children and young people by screen-use technologies. Precise in its cultural diagnosis and ideology critique, this is a must read for anyone interested in the ‘education drugs attention complex’ and the critical role of social philosophy to combating the worst excesses of this movement. * Andrew W. Wilkins, Reader in Education, Goldsmiths, University of London *
About The Author
Kenneth J. Saltman
Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. He is the author of The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (2018), The Politics of Education, 2nd edition (2018), and The Disaster of Resilience (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a fellow of the National Educational Policy Center and a Fulbright Chair in Globalization and Culture.
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