Can the medicated subject speak?

░2░8░ ░κ░α░ψ░ά░κ░ι░α░ ░π░α░ρ░α░τ░ε░τ░α░μ░έ░ν░η░ς░ ░α░π░ο░δ░έ░σ░μ░ε░υ░σ░η░ς░,░ ░σ░κ░λ░η░ρ░ά░ enacts a vibrant, maximalist encounter with medication. It challenges the psychopharmacological power at the heart of late capitalism and its appropriation of the affects and desires of the present. In the neoliberal context, pharmaceutical drugs emerge as highly valuable commodities through which the very structures that produce personal and political despair also capitalise on it. Naya Magaliou approaches this collective distress as a pandemic, exposing the depoliticizing fallacy that contemporary mental health is merely an individual concern, while ironically confronting the cruel optimism of healing, immunity, and the promise that everything will be alright.