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Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression - Paperback

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by Franco Bifo Berardi (Author)

Analyses the current wave of depression, or "desertion", that is causing more and more people to abandon hope and desire in a world where social, political and environment collapse seems inevitable.

Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn't depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable future?

In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind of capitalism, from the brutal reality of climate collapse, and from a society which offers nothing but chaos and pain.

Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence and the rise of the far-right, asking if we can find some political hope in desertion amongst the ruins of a world on the brink of collapse.

Author Biography

Franco Berardi is an Italian Marxist philosopher, theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition. He is the of author of over two-dozen books, including After the Future, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide and Futurability. His works have been translated and published in fifteen different languages, including English, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian and Korean.

Number of Pages: 207
Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: August 13, 2024

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