Alex Dobrenko

I’ve recently been exploring the metaphor of work as trace – that it isn’t so much about what we put out into the world as how we put it out; that the thing we really ought to care about, the thing that ultimately matters, is the intention from which the work emerges. The rest is all mirror, representation, resemblance.

“It was not being depressed that inactivated me in a political sense, but being well! [...] I think we should acknowledge that distress, depression, and other forms of “mental illness” are necessary components of social change. [...] Depression can be a tool that can be wielded; it can be a tool for insight, for passion, for action.”

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