TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - A Break?
JO  - Law and critique
A1  - Loizidou, E.
SP  - 307
EP  - 322
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0957-8536
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-017-9213-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -