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Excellent article, and to anyone interested in the topic, I'd suggest going beyond the review and reading Mark Fisher himself. His book, Capitalist Realism, as
by claudiawerner 7y ago
Excellent article, and to anyone interested in the topic, I'd suggest going beyond the review and reading Mark Fisher himself. His book, Capitalist Realism, as mentioned by the article, is short but an essential read to understand the politics of mental health: its current privatization at the hands of pharma companies and individualization at the hands of self-help authors and YouTube stars.
- mbostleman 7y agoPrivatization, pharma? Between regulation and licensing it was my understanding that in practical terms pharma is at least as much public as it is private.
- intopieces 7y agoclaudiawerner is talking about the privatization of mental illness, not Pharma, as outlined by Mark Warner in the essay “The Privatisation of Stress” from 2011.