technology as symptom, depression as cure

Our cultural dream of abandonment and disembodiment reveals itself through technoscientific productions. Destruction is entangled between the individuals, communities, nature, and artificial technoproductions that involuntarily inherit this dream. As prior explorations have revealed, agency can be recentered in the self through disruption and disturbance. The symptoms of technology—oppression, destruction, devalorization—manifest themselves in the body as a cure: depression. a call to return

Home

“Depression is a call home and in our lives we would resist that call, because having already resisted the knowledge it would give us, it is forced to appear as alien to our lives” (Romanyshyn 1989: 224)

“Depression as a cure entails a willingness to allow oneself to be guided and to be taught by one’s depression, to work with it and to let it work over one’s life. For a life on the run and on the way up, it means specifically a willingness to allow the depression to slow you down and bring you down, and to turn you around and to demand that you remember home even as you leave it” (Romanyshyn 1989: 225) 15