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