QUIT EVERYTHING
Is a book about desertion.
Desertion is a way to escape the horrors of war, but also a way to escape the horrors of peace.
QUIT EVERYTHING, a book published by The Repeater
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To desert means to abandon the battle, somehow sneak out of the fray, weasel away from the place where the fight is raging, and flee, before the military police catch you and shoot you in the
back for your cowardice. Desertion is becoming the line of conduct of more and more people in more and more fields of contemporary life.
I praise this behavior. Flight, abandonment, inaction, desertion are the only behaviors that I consider ethically acceptable and strategically rational. Defeatism, sabotage.
When I realized that devastation — of the physical environment, of the soul — has reached a point of no return, when I realized that techno-financial automatisms have disabled democracy and political action itself, I came to the conclusion that desertion is the only ethically sustainable position, and also the only strategically effective behavior.
At that point, the problem of subjectivity appeared in different light.
QUIT EVERYTHING
Is a book about depression.
Depression carries a message, and we should start by recognizing its cognitive value, in order to get free from the effects of isolation, loneliness, and despair, and in order to reactivate the imagination based on the acceptance of depression’s message, not on its denial.
It is the ambiguousness of psycho-deflation that interests me, because this ambiguity can evolve in a manner that does not deny the contents of depression, but turns those contents into collective realizations, tenderness, and relaxation.
From my point of view, the message that we may disentangle from depressive symptoms concerns desertion: desertion from war, desertion from nationalism, but also from the expectation of a better future, a future of expansion, of accumulation. Interpreting depression is a philosophical, psychoanalytic, and political task. In my opinion, it is the main task we have to face today.
DESERTEMOS, un libro publicado por PROMETEO
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