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"Work & life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production & distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems. To function effectively as a component of just-in-time..
..production you must develop a capacity to respond to unforeseen events, you must learn to live in conditions of total instability, or 'precarity', as the ugly neologism has it. Periods of work alternate with periods of unemployment. Typically, you find yourself employed in a..
series of short-term jobs, unable to plan for the future....
The psychological conflict raging within individuals cannot but have casualties. Marazzi is researching the link between the increase in bi-polar disorder and post-Fordism and, if, as Deleuze and Guattari argue...
The psychological conflict raging within individuals cannot but have casualties. Marazzi is researching the link between the increase in bi-polar disorder and post-Fordism and, if, as Deleuze and Guattari argue...
..schizophrenia is the condition that marks the outer edges of capitalism, then bi-polar disorder is the mental illness proper to the 'interior' of capitalism. With its ceaseless boom and bust cycles, capitalism is itself fundamentally and irreducibly bi-polar, periodically..
lurching between hyped-up mania (irrational exuberance of 'bubble thinking') & depressive come-down. To a degree unprecedented in any other social system, capitalism both feeds on & reproduces the moods of populations. Without delirium & confidence, capital could not function."
- Mark Fisher (RIP)
"Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?"
"Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?"
