Thp. PnisnnAri <strong>Soul</strong> /179"<strong>The</strong> real is growing like the desert [ . . . J Illusion, dreams,madness and drugs, but also artifice and MUlUlacr'unl _tfwere realiry's n<strong>at</strong>ural pred<strong>at</strong>ors. <strong>The</strong>y have all lostthough struck down by some dark, incurable malady.""Baudrillard foresees the tendency th<strong>at</strong> would becomethe next decades: in his analysis, simul<strong>at</strong>ion modifies thebetween subject and object, forcing the subject <strong>to</strong> accepttern position of the seduced. <strong>The</strong> active parry is not thethe object. Consequentially, the entire field of problemsalien<strong>at</strong>ion, repression, and discontent. In his l<strong>at</strong>est yearsmuch quoted work on disciplinary societies and sociery ofDeleuze does seem <strong>to</strong> question Foucault's notion of dHlci[llinthe different theoretical architectures descending from it:<strong>to</strong> go in the direction th<strong>at</strong> Baudrillard had followed since1970s. I am not interested in comparing the theory ofwith the theory of desire, even if one day this COJrnpansonneed <strong>to</strong> be developed. I am interested in the pSJ1ch.op<strong>at</strong>h.olscene emerging in the years of passage from l<strong>at</strong>e industrial<strong>to</strong> semio-capitalism, th<strong>at</strong> is <strong>to</strong> say a form of capitalismimm<strong>at</strong>erial labor and the explosion of the Infosphere.Overproduction is an immanent character of capitalisticduction, since the production of goods never correspondslogic of human beings' concrete needs, but <strong>to</strong> the abstractthe production of value. Yet in the domain of Sernitlcapir:alismspecific overproduction th<strong>at</strong> occurs is a semiotic one: anexcess of signs circul<strong>at</strong>ing in the Infosphere. Individual andtive <strong>at</strong>tention is s<strong>at</strong>ur<strong>at</strong>ed.With time, Baudrillard's intuition proved its relevance.dominant p<strong>at</strong>hology of the future will not be produced by repr'essitinstead by the injunction <strong>to</strong> express, which will become aner:.m:ea oblig<strong>at</strong>ion.we deal with the present malaise affecting the first connective:ner'<strong>at</strong>ll)n, we are not in the conceptual domain described by FreudCiviliz<strong>at</strong>ion and Its Discontents. Freud's vision places repressionorigin of p<strong>at</strong>hology: something is hidden from us, suppressedrepressed. Something is forbidden.Today it seems evident th<strong>at</strong> seclusion is no longer <strong>at</strong> the originf pltth,ole'gy, but r<strong>at</strong>her hyper-vision, the excess of visibiliry accomtheexplosion of Infosphere: the excess of info-nervousNot repression, but hyper-expressivity is the technologicalanthropological context framing our understanding ofpsychop<strong>at</strong>hologies: ADD, dyslexia, panic. <strong>The</strong>se p<strong>at</strong>holorefer<strong>to</strong> a different way of elabor<strong>at</strong>ing the inform<strong>at</strong>ionalyet they manifest themselves through pain, discomfort andI'd like <strong>to</strong> st<strong>at</strong>e here--even if this may seem superfluous-th<strong>at</strong>discourse has nothing <strong>to</strong> do with the reactionary and bigotedpre:tching about the bad results of permissive <strong>at</strong>titudes, and howthe repression of the good old days was both for the intelandfor social mores.We have seen then, how the dominant social psychop<strong>at</strong>hology,id"nti:hed as neurosis and described as a consequence of repression<strong>to</strong>day needs <strong>to</strong> be described as a psychosis associ<strong>at</strong>ed withdimension of action and an excess of energy and inform<strong>at</strong>ion.In his schizoanalytic work, Gu<strong>at</strong>tari focused on the possibiliry.v" cucmHH the rel<strong>at</strong>ion between neurosis and psychosis, beginningthe methodological and cognitive role of schizophrenia. This
new definition had an extremely powerful political effect,semiotics of schizophreniawith the explosion of the neurotic limits th<strong>at</strong> caj)i"diSimimposed on expression by forcing activity within the reF'ressiv,,]oflabor and subjug<strong>at</strong>ing desire ro disciplinary fo rmsBur the very schizomorphic pressure of the social m,)ve:m',nt.the expressive explosion of the social led <strong>to</strong> a me:tarno,rph.&,schizometamorphosis) of social languages, productivefinally of capitalist exploit<strong>at</strong>ion.<strong>The</strong> psychop<strong>at</strong>hologies now spreading in the dailyfirst gener<strong>at</strong>ions of the connective era cannot be unClerst')o
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