"Capitalism is psychologically unsustainable" with Mikkel Krause Frantzen (OUR007)

Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores the way that neoliberal, financialized capitalism ensnares us in a perpetual mode of suffering and then offers insufficient, individualizing "solutions" to our woes through the medicalization of mental illness. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, author of Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression (Zero Books 2019), literary critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken, and postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, where he focuses on financialization and literature. In this episode we discuss his essay of 16 December 2019 "A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health" published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.