Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health

Conor Heaney is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is the author of many journal articles including in Culture, Theory and Critique, Ethics and Global Politics, Deleuze & Guattari Studies and Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Heaney’s book is innovative, timely, interdisciplinary, and thorough. It is grounded in the most prominent French thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but carries their analyses into the contemporary milieu of late capitalism. It is a work of staggering originality, extensively researched and meticulously argued. It will likely stand as a lasting intervention into the uncircumventable crises of mental health in the frenetic morass of global capital.

• Preface - Gary GenoskoPart One – Rhythmic Ecology: An Introduction to ScapingIntroduction: Rhythm, the Map and the Territory1. Rhythm and Desire2. Scaping: Revolutionary Rhythmanalysis3. A Critique of the Rhythms of Everyday LifePart Two – Mindscaping the Rhythms of Everyday Life4. Distraction-Attention Ecology5. Happiness-Depression Ecology6. Debt-Credit EcologyConclusion: The Rhythmanalytical Project and the Way of Rhythm (Endtroduction)Postscript - Conor Heaney & Iain MacKenzieBibliographyIndex