Home > Reads > Schizophrenia in Capitalism Lees voor Schizophrenia in Capitalism Nabila Ayu Aviani & Luna Bongers Video In this work Nabila and Luna address norms and binaries by looking at Deleuze and Guattari’s work on schizoanalysis.[1] Nabila and Luna interpret this work as a critique on schizophrenia understood as an illness or disease. They rather regard it as a result of capitalism. Within capitalism, meanings and belief systems are subverted by quantitative market calculations and monetary values. Within this moment of replacement, of decoding meaning and recoding monetary value, schizophrenia is fuelled. However, schizophrenia does not replace it with one “true” monetary value but with multiple meanings, resulting in multiple realities, expressed in hallucination and voices. Nabila and Luna understand modern and digital media as intensifying this schizophrenia and blurring the line between what is real and normal and what is unreal and abnormal, according to Patricia Pisters work: Madness, Miracles, Machines.[2] With this notion of schizophrenia norms and binaries are re-evaluated. First, it re-evaluates what is regarded as the normal and abnormal: the illness, the other. Furthermore, this understanding of schizophrenia allows for multiple meanings and multiple realities, it defeats the illusion of one fixed true reality. Hereby, schizophrenia refuses the creation of current norms and refuses marginalization and the creation of other. Hence, this work represents schizophrenia not as illness but as potential for accepting multiple meanings and consequently the potential for freedom.