Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life

Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and transform our everyday experience. Drawing particularly on the work of Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, and Henri Lefebvre, Heaney develops the idea of rhythmanalysis as an original and interdisciplinary approach to the politics of mental health. He offers both a renewed methodological and philosophical approach to rhythmanalysis (scaping) and deploys it with respect to the relationship between 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.