In an age that prioritizes efficiency and measurable outcomes, choosing to pursue happiness can be a truly radical gesture. We have been convinced that happiness is a prize to be won, but reality dictates that happiness is political, and sometimes, a form of collective resistance.
What, then, is happiness, really, and why should we stop treating it as a private matter? Giulia Blasi reflects on her time as a discouraged activist and dismantles the narrative of isolation, searching for an alternative to the sense of helplessness that defines our times.
The result is a book that does not offer easy solutions to complex problems but instead sketches out a map for navigating our shared crisis, seeking a way out of the “Tapinocene”, the era of unhappiness, where we are crushed by unmet needs, alienated from our own lives, and left feeling lonely in a hyper-connected world.
With the clarity and irony that characterizes her writing, Blasi exposes the toxic ideas surrounding power, the body, work, and life, showing how economic, cultural, and social systems are designed to make us feel inadequate. She blends seriousness and humor, analysis and digression, bound by a single thread: reclaiming happiness as a common good and a right to be defended.
