Cold World – The aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria
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- ISBN 9781846942174
- Weight: 114g
- Dimensions: 143 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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To live well in the world one must be able to enjoy it: to love, Freud says, and work. Dejection is the state of being in which such enjoyment is no longer possible. There is an aesthetic dimension to dejection, in which the world appears in a new light. In this book, the dark serenity of dejection is examined through a study of the poetry of Hopkins and Coleridge, and the music of 'depressive' black metal artists such as Burzum and Xasthur. The author then develops a theory of 'militant dysphoria' via an analysis of the writings of the Red Army Fraction's activist-theoretician, Ulrike Meinhof. The book argues that the 'cold world' of dejection is one in which new creative and political possibilities, as well as dangers, can arise. It is not enough to live well in the world: one must also be able to affirm that another world is possible.
