“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage -- are simply a consequence of unsettled chemistry, a problem to be fixed, rather than a response to structural injustice or, on the other hand, to the native texture of embodiment, of doing time, as David Wojnarowicz memorably put it, in a rented body, with all the attendant grief and frustration that entails.”
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, emotions, Loneliness, Mortality, Gentrification, Cities, Mental Health
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