Depression (re)cycling: geotraumatic performance & other cosmic plot holes

ABSTRACT

While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, I draw upon a method of collage to demonstrate how “plot holes” between critical autoethnography, visual art, poetry, and speculative theorizing help reflect my ecology of depression. Theoretically cohering the performance is geotrauma, which traces affective dispositions across deep time and space, rendering depression a condition of the cosmos. Content warning: this writing contains discussion of suicide. Anyone in need of help can reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.

KEYWORDS:

• Depression
• collage
• geotrauma
• posthuman performance
• ecosophy

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