Depresja i neoliberalny kapitalizm. Kilka uwag na marginesie Koali Lukasa Bärfussa
Neoliberal Capitalism and Depression: Some Remarks on the Margin of Lukas Bärfuss’s Koala

Summary/Abstract: Jasnowski explores Lukas Bärfuss’s novel Koala to highlight the impact of free-market fundamentalism on mental health. He juxtaposes the diagnoses proposed by Bärfuss with theoretical works by Carl Walker and Mark Fisher, who have linked the epidemic of depression (and increased suicide rates) to the neoliberal status quo. Jasnowski also asks how to overcome the current impasse. Like Bärfuss he believes that literature can be a tool of resistance and emancipation. “The failure of the future,” Bärfuss argues, can only be reversed through a clash of what seems permanent, fixed and unchangeable (the system) with that which is unlimited, abysmal and infinite in its potentiality (fiction).

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