In "The Already Dead," Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that
contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture
intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new
chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses
targeted drug therapies and biotechnology to manage rather than
cure diseases, global capitalism aims not for resolution but rather
for a continual state of crisis management that perpetuates the
iniquities of the status quo. Engaging critical theory, philosophy,
and psychoanalysis, he explores the ways that crisis affects
perceptions of time and denies alternative ways of being and
thinking.
To resist the exploitative crisis state, which Cazdyn terms "the
global abyss," he posits the concept of "the already dead," a
condition in which the subject (medical, political, psychological)
has been killed but has yet to die. Embracing this condition, he
argues, allows for a revolutionary consciousness open to a utopian
future. Woven into Cazdyn's analysis are personal anecdotes about
his battle with leukemia and his struggle to obtain Canadian
citizenship during his illness. These narratives help to illustrate
his systemic critique, one that reconfigures the relationship
between politics, capitalism, revolution, and the body.
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