@article{ref1,
title="A Break?",
journal="Law and critique",
year="2017",
author="Loizidou, E.",
volume="28",
number="3",
pages="307-322",
abstract="Since the financial crisis of 2008 we have seen a rise in suicides across the world. Greece for example in 2011 saw a sustained increase in suicides of 35.7%. In this article I draw our attention to well-publicized suicides that took place in Greece. I focus on the suicide notes left behind. The suicide notes, I suggest, can be read as offering us a critique of the anxious times in which we find ourselves. They are offering us a critique in two senses: (a) a critique of the way we are being governed (through austerity memorandums and a neoliberal logic); and (b) a critique of the affirmative ways of responding towards the financial crisis (through occupations, demonstrations etc.). Consequently these suicide notes can be read as a demand for having a break from this neoliberal logic and organization of life and asking us to re-imagine our social and political realm. In arguing thus, the article draws on Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Wendy Brown and others. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0957-8536",
doi="10.1007/s10978-017-9213-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-017-9213-8"
}