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Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
Franco ´Bifo´ Berardi
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What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781685785
SKU
V9781781685785
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About Franco ´Bifo´ Berardi
Franco Berardi Bifo was the founder of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in 1976. One of the most prominent members of Autonomia, Berardi worked closely with the French psychoanalyst Felix Guattari throughout the 1980s. His latest books in English are The Soul at Work: from Alienation to Autonomy; The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance; and After the Future.
Reviews for Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
Does more than merely scratch the surface ... ultimately, Bifo advocates for the limitless power of imagination and irony as the only antidotes in a world urging to be rebuilt from scratch.
Bookslut
As a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest.
Slate
An exquisite reading of our historical situation.
Michael Robbins
Chicago Tribune
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Bookslut
As a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest.
Slate
An exquisite reading of our historical situation.
Michael Robbins
Chicago Tribune
... Read more