Last Born In The Wilderness

[Intro: 9:04 | Book Pre-sale: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr] In this episode, I speak with Mikkel Krause Frantzen, author of ‘Going Nowhere, Slow — The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression,’ published by Zero Books. We discuss depression, capitalist realism, and revolution, as discussed in his essay ‘A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health,’ published at Los Angeles Review of Books. “An adequate diagnosis of depression — and its context — is not enough in itself. It is common wisdom, however, that the diagnosis does not necessarily entail the cure. Just because we know what’s wrong does not mean that we will be able to deal with it. On the contrary, one of the primary symptoms of depression is that what you need to do is precisely what you cannot do, at least not alone and on your own. Or in the plain words of Ann Cvetkovich: “Saying that capitalism (or colonialism or racism) is the problem does not help me get up in the morning.” Also, there is no reason to believe that ab