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Modern Madness – a radical investigation of mental distress

01 Tuesday Nov 2016

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Ed Lord, psychiatry

NEW PUBLICATION FROM WINTER OAK

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Modern Madness: A Wild Schizoanalysis of Mental Distress in the Spaces of Modernity

by Ed Lord

A radically ground-breaking investigation of mental distress in the spaces of the modern world has just been published by Winter Oak Press.

In Modern Madness: A Wild Schizoanalysis of Mental Distress in the Spaces of Modernity, talented new author Ed Lord opens up some fundamental questions for analysis.

What are we to make of an age that delivers pandemic levels of mental illness and a physical environment at the point of catastrophic collapse?

What is it that connects and infuses both modernity and psychiatry to make them seem like the only possible ways to organise our lives and aid our distress?

Could there be other options available? Other ways to explain and ameliorate our distress? What if mental distress is considered as much a matter of geography as it is of personal pathology?

The philosophical legacies of Felix Guattari and John Zerzan are employed to take the reader on a profoundly challenging walk through Critical Theory, anarchy and decolonisation to create a route to sanity via a wild-schizoanalysis.

Drawing upon a professional background in acute psychiatry and a personal immersion in radical environmentalism the author introduces us to the opening salvo of a wild and undomesticated way to think about the personal and global issues we face.

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Quote for the day – February 11

11 Thursday Feb 2016

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Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak

“All human thought, social or individual, is also situated in the processes of body, nature and place”.

Charlene Spretnak, The Resurgence of the Real

[Read about Charlene Spretnak on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – February 2

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

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E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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“In the subtle system of nature, technology, and in particular the super-technology of the modern world, acts like a foreign body, and there are now numerous signs of rejection”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – January 30

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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“There are mystical moments when we seem to stop existing as an individual and are absorbed into everything that surrounds us – trees, mountains, rivers, wildlife. This is not an illusion that we are experiencing, but the falling-away of an illusion”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – January 26

26 Tuesday Jan 2016

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Ascona, Max Weber, Michael Löwy

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“One of the essential themes of this critique, which resurfaces like an obsession in the work of writers, poets, philosophers and historians, is the clash between Kultur, a spiritual realm of ethical, religious or aesthetic values, and Zivilisation, the vulgar materialist world of economic and technological progress. If capitalism is, according to Max Weber’s mercilessly perceptive expression, the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt), then anti-capitalist Romanticism has to be seen primarily as a despairing and nostalgic attempt at the re-enchantment of the world”.

Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale

[Read about Michael Löwy on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – January 8

08 Friday Jan 2016

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Gaia, Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

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“I have used the myth of the goddess Gaia to express the idea that we are an integral part of a single, intelligent life-form which acts like an individual. I have tried to show how it is that we can never separate ourselves from this life-form, despite our delusions of dominance and control, because should we succeed in doing so, we would be committing an irreversible act of mass suicide: as if an arm tried to exist separately from the body”.

Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

[Read about Kit Pedler on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 27

27 Sunday Dec 2015

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E.F. Schumacher, industrialism, Small is Beautiful

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“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – December 18

18 Friday Dec 2015

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Constantin von Monakow

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“There is an undeniable glory in the thought that an indelible temporal bond links us, not only with our ancestors and our descendants, but above all also with the whole rest of the organic world”.

Constantin von Monakow

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Quote for the day – December 9

09 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Derrick Jensen, Dreams

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“I’ve never had much patience for those – and there are a lot of them – who consider humans to be the ‘apex’ of evolution, who evidently believe that all of evolution took place so that we can watch television”.

Derrick Jensen, Dreams

[Read about Derrick Jensen on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 4

04 Friday Dec 2015

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Gaia, Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

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“A tree is an extension of the earth. A tree is part of the sun, because the rays of the sun are its life. A tree does not end at its roots. It is an organ of Gaia. The tree is Gaia and Gaia is the tree. It is living earth. A man is not a man, he is an extension of the earth. A man and a woman are part of the sun because the rays of the sun are their life. A tree, a man and a woman are the same because they are an extension of the earth. When they are alive, they are together because they are the same. When they die they go on together, because they are still the same”.

Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

[Read about Kit Pedler on the orgrad website]

 

 

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