RT @AngusMcnelly: This forthcoming collection on the legacies of empire and the entanglements of race, finance and inequality looks excelle…

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"Seen from a great enough critical distance, the anxiety epidemic might appear as a kind of mass strike or labor action of a generation whose whole existence has been made to do the work of financialization." https://t.co/KMOp1ZnQvk

In other words, the kids have been constantly told to "invest in themselves" and compete for a place in the capitalist ruins, or languish in poverty and precarity. The university bought in to that paradigm. Maybe the epidemic is, in part, them whispering "no" en masse.

We make the somewhat provocative argument that the "epidemic" of anxiety may, among other things, be an uncoordinated form of mass refusal of the neolib/financialized university that serves to make the individual a "factory" for the production and circulation of value.

This would be a good one to share w. students to prompt discussion about how mental distress and misery are connected to broader questions of political economy... and what a collective (rather than individuated) response might be.