Narcocapitalismo

Narcocapitalismo

para acabar con la sociedad de la anestesia

Sutter, Laurent de

Antidepressants, sleeping pills, cocaine, pain relievers. Our lives seem like pharmacies. We can no longer function without the help of chemicals: a pill to wake up, another to work, the next to party, another to prevent a hangover and the last to sleep. We live in the age of anesthesia, we are a society drugged to the taste of capital: a listless social body, recruited and doped to keep the production rate high and the established order intact. What do the invention of anesthesia in the mid-19th century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? They are products with the same logic: the control of emotions and the abandonment of excitement. We have forgotten what excitement is because the only excitement we know of is drug-induced. This provocative essay delves into history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and economics to call us to abandon narcotic stimulation and find our way back to political and collective excitement: that is the greatest fear of narco-capitalism.

Author
Sutter, Laurent de
Subject
Human sciences > Sociology
EAN
9788417910853
ISBN
978-84-17910-85-3
Edition
1
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pages
128 
High
22.9 cm
Weight
15.5 cm
Release date
04-02-2021
Language
Spanish 
Series
 
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Sutter, Laurent de (aut.)

  • Sutter, Laurent de
    Laurent de Sutter (Bruselas, 1977) es profesor de Teoría Legal en la Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Ha sido investigador invitado en la Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law de Yeshiva University (Nu   Read more