Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression

Mikkel Krause Frantzen

Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression

Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab

Abstract

Using examples from art and literature, Frantzen explores the social, political and economic implications of both real and imagined depression. Is feeling blue a symptom of the death of progress? Was the suicide of David Foster Wallace a proverbial canary in a coal mine?

Margaret Thatcher once declared that there is no alternative to the social order that we now reside within. Have we accepted her slogan as a fact, and is that why so many are on Prozac and other anti-depressants?

Frantzen examines the works of Michel Houellebecq, Claire Fontaine and David Foster Wallace as he seeks out an answer and a way to formulate a new future oriented left movement.

Originalsprog	Engelsk

Forlag	Zero Books
Antal sider	229
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-78904-214-6
Status	Udgivet - 29 nov. 2019

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