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Global Burnout
Available for the first time in English and freshly adapted as the acclaimed documentary Burning Out, Pascal Chabot's polemic treatise - Global Burnout - takes the phenomenon we call burnout as not just an individual problem that affects a few exhausted people, but rather 'a disease of civilization', connected to concepts of progress, technology, and desire, which are the hallmarks of this era of experimentation. First analysing the archaeology of the concept, Chabot distinguishes three main types of burnout: the first, specific to professions who help others, appears to be the exhaustion of their humanism; the second, a trouble of adaptation and perfectionism; and the third, which is a consequence of the struggle for recognition. The philosophical implications of each of these three states is identified, allowing Chabot to buck the trend towards a negative, nearly fatalistic outlook, something not surprising considering the intrinsic gravity of the subject matter. An excellent story teller as well as an adequate elaborater of complex theories, Chabot's Global Burnout presents an introduction to the topic and therapy for the modern reader.
The Philosophy of Simondon
This book is available to an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing an accessible guide to students and scholars.
The Philosophy of Simondon
"The last two decades have seen a massive increase in the scholarly interest in technology, and have provoked new lines of thought in philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) was one of Frances's most influential philosophers in this field, and an important influence on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler. His work is only now being translated into English. Chabot's introduction to Simondon's work was published in French in 2002 and is now available in English for the first time. It is the most accessible guide to Simondon's important but often opaque work. Chabot provides an excellent introduction to Simondon, positioning him as a philosopher of technology, and he describes his theory of individuation including his crystalline ontology. He goes on to offer a bridge between these two concerns, exploring how they are related."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Discern(e)ments
A bilingual collection of essays on the aesthetics of Gilles Deleuze, Discern(e)ments highlights what is at stake in Deleuzian philosophy of art. It traces the reception of Deleuzian thought in a broad range of disciplines and gauges its use-value in each of them. Following the dynamics between structure and becoming that punctuates Deleuzian aesthetics, Discern(e)ments sketches and erases boundaries between methods and traditions in philosophy and art theory, as well as in literary, performance and film studies. Offering both numerous case-studies as well as theoretical outlines, Discern(e)ments engages faculties, disciplines and criticisms not in a mere exchange of points of view, but in heterogenesis mapping out further discernments in Deleuzian aesthetics.
Global burn-out
Il fallait établir ce constat : avant d'être un problème individuel, le burn-out est d'abord une pathologie de civilisation. Marquée par l'accélération du temps, la soif de rentabilité, les tensions entre le dispositif technique et des humains déboussolés, la postmodernité est devenue un piège pour certaines personnes trop dévouées à un système dont elles cherchent en vain la reconnaissance. Mais ce piège n'est pas une fatalité. Face aux exigences de la civilisation postmoderne, on peut se demander comment transformer l'oeuvre au noir du burn-out afin qu'il devienne le théâtre d'une métamorphose, et que naisse de son expérience un être moins fidèle au système, mais en accord avec ses paysages intérieurs.
Après le progrès
La tyrannie du Progrès, "machine à engendrer des croyants puis des désespérés", a été maintes fois dénoncée comme une utopie néfaste (voire catastrophique), et c'est tant mieux. Mais dénoncer le Progrès ne doit pas nous entraîner vers une bien-pensance hypocrite qui nous verrait condamner a priori des progrès enregistrés dans tous les domaines techniques, quand l'homme des temps contemporains en jouit chaque jour. A partir d'une approche philosophique serrée (Francis Bacon, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon...), l'auteur montre que le progrès est proprement vide de sens et qu'il ne tient qu'à l'humanité de le charger de valeur, c'est-à-dire à chaque individu de s'en constituer une conscience propre : tel est l'exigence avancée ici par l'auteur, qui l'illustre par la perception singulière qu'en ont restitué certains auteurs de fiction (Defoe, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Reverdy...).
Burnout
Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery is the first complete self-help guide to burnout, based on groundbreaking new research. Burnout is widespread among high achievers in the workplace, and the problem is becoming more prevalent and profound in its impact. This book contains new evidence-based tools for readers to work out for themselves whether they have burnout and generate a plan for recovery based on their personal situation. Chapters show readers how to recognise their own burnout patterns and how far they may have travelled into burnout territory, and provide research-based management approaches to help them regain their passions and build their resilience. Offering fascinating new insights into the biology of burnout, and stories from people who have rebounded from it, the book acts as a complete guide for anyone who suspects they may have burnout, for their friends and families, and for health professionals and employers.
Architectural Technicities
This book poses a simple question: how is this architecture possible? To respond, it will embark on a captivating journey through many singular architectural concepts. The entasis of Doric columns, Ulysses and desert islands will outline an architectural act that moves beyond representation. A ferryman who stutters will present two different types of architectural minds. A stilus and a theory of signs will reconsider the ways architects can develop a particular kind of intuition, while architectural technicities will bring forth a membranic and territorial understanding of architecture. Finally, as a melody that sings itself, a larval architecture will be introduced, bringing space and time ...
Deleuze and the Diagram
An examination of Deleuze's notion of the diagram from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that develops the concept into a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art.
No Limits
Tech entrepreneur Mukesh Bansal has been a lifelong student of human performance optimisation. He has studied the science behind it, and worked closely with high performers across business, sports and entertainment, to understand what it takes to transcend apparent limitations and achieve true potential. Through his entrepreneurial experience and studying the field of health and fitness, Bansal came to understand the enormous power of plasticity: the ability of the human brain to rewire itself at will as we develop new skills. He also realised that high performers across domains rely on common tools that were embraced by ancient wisdom and are validated by modern science. Knowing that high performance is not a matter of genetics or luck is highly empowering. No Limits distils Bansal's findings on talent, deliberate practice, mindset, habit, willpower and learning. It is a guide to maximising one's potential with well-defined strategies. So, no matter what you do, you can be a superior version of yourself, performing at increasingly better levels, constantly reaching higher.
