01557nam a22002297a 4500 250703b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781915672513 tbs eng JA74.5 .B47 2024 Berardi, Franco 25642 author Quit everything : interpreting depression / Franco Berardi. London : Repeater, 2024. 201 pages ; 20 cm. Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn't depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable future? In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind of capitalism, from the brutal reality of climate collapse, and from a society which offers nothing but chaos and pain. Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence and the rise of the far-right, asking if we can find some political hope in desertion amongst the ruins of a world on the brink of collapse. Political alienation 25643 Youth Political activity 25644 Political participation 10851 Political culture 25645 Depression, Mental Philosophy 25646 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-07-03 0 JA74.5 BER B07581 2025-07-03 1 2025-07-03 1 4815 4815