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14 october 2021
Mental Health:
the Third Unconscious
the Third Unconscious
At the meeting, we will discuss the “new normal”: Where is the line between "normality" and abnormal psychological states: burnout, depression, suicidal behavior, and various practices of excluding oneself from the community? How relevant is it to talk about the possibility of a psychological norm in 2021? What mutations are happening right now, in this time of social distancing?
Writer and theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi will present his overview of the mutation that is influencing the social Unconscious, from the point of view of the era in which we live: viral pandemics combined with the catastrophic collapse of capitalism. ‘Beyond this threshold we can distinctly see a horizon of chaos, exhaustion, and extinction, one that is hard to ignore or deny. The Unconscious has no history. Nevertheless, we can describe the evolution of the psychosphere, from modern industrial times (analysed in the Freudian theory of neurosis and repression) to the neoliberal age of digital acceleration (analysed by Michel Foucault in La naissance de la biopolitique).’
Havi Carel, professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol and author of the monograph Phenomenology of Illness (2016), will accent experiences of existential angst and the effects of social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
How relevant is it to discuss the possibility of a psychological norm in 2021? And what changes are occurring in this time of social distancing?
Writer and theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi will present his overview of the mutation that is influencing the social Unconscious, from the point of view of the era in which we live: viral pandemics combined with the catastrophic collapse of capitalism. ‘Beyond this threshold we can distinctly see a horizon of chaos, exhaustion, and extinction, one that is hard to ignore or deny. The Unconscious has no history. Nevertheless, we can describe the evolution of the psychosphere, from modern industrial times (analysed in the Freudian theory of neurosis and repression) to the neoliberal age of digital acceleration (analysed by Michel Foucault in La naissance de la biopolitique).’
Havi Carel, professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol and author of the monograph Phenomenology of Illness (2016), will accent experiences of existential angst and the effects of social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
How relevant is it to discuss the possibility of a psychological norm in 2021? And what changes are occurring in this time of social distancing?
14 October 2021, 8 p.m.; UTC +3
A conversation between Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Havi Carel;
moderated by Alexander Vileykis
A conversation between Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Havi Carel;
moderated by Alexander Vileykis
The event is part of the international UK–Russia Creative Bridge programme 2021–2022 supported by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow
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Franco “Bifo”Berardi is a contemporary writer, media theorist, and media activist.
Berardi founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was on the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Along with other intellectuals involved in the Autonomia political movement in Italy during the 1970's, Franco fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has been a contributor to the magazines Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome), Musica 80 (Milan), and Archipielago (Barcelona). He also wrote The Uprising (Semiotexte, Los Angeles, 2012), which has been translated into numerous languages and published in Norway, Germany, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Russia.
In 2015 he published the book Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (London: Verso Futures, 2015). HEROES has been published in Germany, France, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, and Holland. Berardi has also authored Phenomenology of the End (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2015
Berardi founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was on the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Along with other intellectuals involved in the Autonomia political movement in Italy during the 1970's, Franco fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has been a contributor to the magazines Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome), Musica 80 (Milan), and Archipielago (Barcelona). He also wrote The Uprising (Semiotexte, Los Angeles, 2012), which has been translated into numerous languages and published in Norway, Germany, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Russia.
In 2015 he published the book Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (London: Verso Futures, 2015). HEROES has been published in Germany, France, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, and Holland. Berardi has also authored Phenomenology of the End (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2015
Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work.
Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a ‘Best of Bristol’ lecturer in 2016.
Havi is the author of Illness: the Cry of Flesh (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing, 2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and of What Philosophy Is (London: Bloomsbury, 2004).
Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a ‘Best of Bristol’ lecturer in 2016.
Havi is the author of Illness: the Cry of Flesh (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing, 2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and of What Philosophy Is (London: Bloomsbury, 2004).
Event moderated by Alexander Vileykis, philosopher, social science researcher, employee of Tyumen State University, guest expert at Synopsis.group, curator of the "Education" panel of the All-Russian Civic Forum.
materials
Podcast
Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the future possibility
of living good // e-flux podcast, 2019
Publication
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Third Unconscious: The Psychosphere in the Viral Age. London: Verso Books, 2021
Publication
Michel Foucault. Madness and Civilization: A History
of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage, 1988
Publication
Interview with Havi Carel // The White Review, 2020
Publication
Matthew Ratcliffe. Experience of Depression: a study
in phenomenology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Publication
Havi Carel. The Phenomenology of Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
Video
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Good, The Bad, The Data: Chaosmic spasm // Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2016
Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the future possibility
of living good // e-flux podcast, 2019
Publication
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Third Unconscious: The Psychosphere in the Viral Age. London: Verso Books, 2021
Publication
Michel Foucault. Madness and Civilization: A History
of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage, 1988
Publication
Interview with Havi Carel // The White Review, 2020
Publication
Matthew Ratcliffe. Experience of Depression: a study
in phenomenology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Publication
Havi Carel. The Phenomenology of Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
Video
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Good, The Bad, The Data: Chaosmic spasm // Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2016
Podcast
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Third Unconscious // The Overmorrow’s Library, 2020
Publication
Mark Fisher. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester: Zero Books, 2014.
Publication
Julia Kristeva. Black Sun. Depression and Melancholia.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992
Publication
Havi Carel, Kate Binnie, Coreen McGuire. Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting // Journal of Material Culture, 2020
Publication
Michel Foucault. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the collège de France, 1978–79. London: Macmillan, 2010
Video
Havi Carel. Phenomenology of Social Distancing // Cardiff Annual Lecture in the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2020
Publication
Havi Carel, Matthew Ratcliffe, Tom Froese.
The art of medicine. Reflecting on experiences
of social distancing // Lancet, 2020
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Third Unconscious // The Overmorrow’s Library, 2020
Publication
Mark Fisher. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester: Zero Books, 2014.
Publication
Julia Kristeva. Black Sun. Depression and Melancholia.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992
Publication
Havi Carel, Kate Binnie, Coreen McGuire. Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting // Journal of Material Culture, 2020
Publication
Michel Foucault. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the collège de France, 1978–79. London: Macmillan, 2010
Video
Havi Carel. Phenomenology of Social Distancing // Cardiff Annual Lecture in the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2020
Publication
Havi Carel, Matthew Ratcliffe, Tom Froese.
The art of medicine. Reflecting on experiences
of social distancing // Lancet, 2020
Publication
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2009
Publication
Byung-Chul Han. The Burnout Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015
Publication
Anne Helen Petersen. Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Boston: Mariner Books, 2020
Publication
Havi Carel. Illness: The Cry of the Flesh.
London: Routledge, 2018
Publication
Havi Carel, Ian James Kidd. Pandemic transformative experience // Philosophers' Magazine, 2020
Video
Havi Carel: Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health. // Cambridge University, 2010
Publication
Havi Carel, Coreen McGuire, Jane Macnaughton.
The Color of Breath // Literature and medicine, 2020
Franco “Bifo” Berardi. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2009
Publication
Byung-Chul Han. The Burnout Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015
Publication
Anne Helen Petersen. Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Boston: Mariner Books, 2020
Publication
Havi Carel. Illness: The Cry of the Flesh.
London: Routledge, 2018
Publication
Havi Carel, Ian James Kidd. Pandemic transformative experience // Philosophers' Magazine, 2020
Video
Havi Carel: Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health. // Cambridge University, 2010
Publication
Havi Carel, Coreen McGuire, Jane Macnaughton.
The Color of Breath // Literature and medicine, 2020
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