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social distortion: disaffection

Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.

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Mental Health

Mental health issues are often asserted as neurochemical or physiological malfunction, located in the individual. Yet this framing conceals how distress emerges from larger social systems, which depend upon gradients of exclusion and disaffection to function. Just as unemployment is not an error but a structural feature of employment markets, sorrow and psychic fracture are […]