Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe

However, critiques from this space tend to disarticulate and prioritize one or sometimes two dimensions of social injustice (e.g., capitalist dispossession, racism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, ableism, imposition of the liberal democratic nation-state form) rather than understanding their interconnections.

That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to