Heroes by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
A sharp diagnosis of contemporary affective life that links the rise of individual desperation, mass violence and suicidal impulses to the pressures of late capitalism, media spectacle and the collapse of collective meaning; it argues that the traditional figure of the hero has been hollowed out by precarious labor, attention economy and technological acceleration, producing brittle subjects who seek recognition through extreme acts. The book traces how economic and communicative conditions cultivate isolation, depression and a pathological desire for immortality or notoriety, and calls for new forms of solidarity, language and political imagination to counter the epidemic of disaffection.
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