Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco Bifo Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.
Spanning an array of horrors the Aurora Joker killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate of austerity suicides in Europe Heroes dares to explore the darkest shadow cast by the contemporary obsession with relentless competition and hyper-connectivity. In a volume that crowns four decades of radical intellectual work, Berardi develops the psychoanalytical insights of his friend Felix Guattari and proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of absolute capitalism."
About the Author
Franco “Bifo” Berardi 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.