Franco Berardi: Heroes (2015)
231 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2015
"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 'Bifo' Berardi 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 neoliberalism"--
Heroes provided a comprehensive analysis of the numerous individual and social axes driving the crisis of modern capitalist alienation, although I'm not entirely sure I agree with the author's conclusions and I felt there was an obvious lack of attention paid to contemporary women's experiences with alienation.
Algún que otro punto de vista interesante pero nada sustancialmente revelador. El concepto y los relatos comentados son interesantes, pero todo análisis es sepultado por un intento de sobre-complicar conceptos ya explorados y atribuirles términos seudocientíficos.
Cualquier intento de explicar eventos económicos es desesperadamente básico y construido desde el individualismo, algo especialmente frustrante viniendo de un autor que se declara marxista (pero bueno supongo que es lo que tiene darle una oportunidad a autores post-modernistas/estructuralistas)
