Overview: Seeks to locate depression in the affective and poetic spaces of art, film, critical theory, literature, politics, and the ‘everyday’Generates new paradigms for thinking about and through depression’s.What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and innovative re
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