Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression

Mikkel Krause Frantzen

Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

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.

Original language	English

Publisher	Zero Books
Number of pages	229
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78904-214-6
Publication status	Published - 29 Nov 2019

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