Heroes : mass murder and suicide /

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Author / Creator:Berardi, Franco, author.
Imprint:Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2015.
Description:231 pages ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Series:Verso futures
Verso futures.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10133323
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ISBN:9781781685778
1781685770
9781781685785
1781685789
9781781685792 (ebook : US)
9781781687529 (ebook : UK)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Summary:"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"--