Melancholic Nonhuman Processes: Disintegration, Diminishment, Refusal
Melancholy is an inward withdrawal from worldly relations that paradoxically exposes the self to the horizon of dreaded mortality through temporal distortions and the paralyzing horrors of existence, while simultaneously and paradoxically yearning for solace in the unconscious oblivion of death. It warps temporal coherence and reduces speech to the muteness of asymbolia. In antiquity, […]
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