"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 & #39;precarity& #39;, 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...
..schizophrenia is the condition that marks the outer edges of capitalism, then bi-polar disorder is the mental illness proper to the & #39;interior& #39; 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 & #39;bubble thinking& #39;) & 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?"
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