Laurent De Sutter: Narcocapitalism

Cover: 9781509506842 | Narcocapitalism | Life in the Age of Anaesthesia | Laurent De Sutter

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Beschreibung

What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ranging from the everyday use of sleeping pills to hard narcotics. Chemistry has become so much a part of us that we can't even see how much it has changed us.

In this era, being a subject doesn't simply mean being subjected to powers that decide our lives: it means that our very emotions have been outsourced to chemical stimulation. Yet we don't understand why the drugs that we take are unable to free us from fatigue and depression, and from the absence of desire that now characterizes our psychopolitical condition. We have forgotten what it means to be excited because our only excitement has become drug-induced. We have to abandon the narcotic stimulation that we've come to rely on and find a way back to the collective excitement that is narcocapitalism's greatest fear.

Über den Autor

Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Prologue: Goin' Down

Chapter 1 - Welcome to Prozacland

Chapter 2 - Narcocapitalism Unlimited

Chapter 3 - Day Without End

Chapter 4 - Swallowing the Pill

Chapter 5 - The Politics of Overexcitement

Epilogue: Getting' Up

Endnotes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	140 S.
ISBN-13:	9781509506842
ISBN-10:	1509506845
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	De Sutter, Laurent
Übersetzung:	Norman, Barnaby
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße:	190 x 121 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Laurent De Sutter
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.01.2018
Gewicht:	0,151 kg

Artikel-ID: 108347963