Prywatyzacja stresu
The Privatisation of Stress
Author(s): Mark FisherSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Sociology, Political economy, Politics and society, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: post-Fordism; stress; capitalist realism; mental health; left modernism
Summary/Abstract: In the article, Mark Fisher elaborates on the observation made in 2008’s Capitalist Realism about the relationship between neoliberalism (the destruction of unions, the privatization of public services, the „flexibilization” of the labor market), its ideological justification (Thatcher’s „there is no alternative”) and mental health, especially its medicalization and privatization. According to Fisher, the leftist remedy for the problems described in the main part of the article is not to reproduce the past forms of political organization, but to return to the project of „left modernism”, which has never really been realized.
Journal: Praktyka teoretyczna
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 45
- Page Range: 251-263
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Polish