1st Edition
Digital Media as Ambient Therapy The Ecological Self between Resonance and Alienation
Introduction
Chapter 1: From “Mental Illness” to “Environmental Illness”
Chapter 2: Mute Instruments and Resonant Relations
Chapter 3: The Agonies of Freedom and Control
Chapter 4: QAnon: From the Resonant to the Digitally Sublime
Conclusion
Biography
Francis Russell is an independent researcher and a trade union official based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. He worked as a lecturer in cultural studies for over a decade, and is one of the founders of the School of Critical Arts, an independent organisation for the study of philosophy and contemporary art. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on the relationship between alienation, “mental illness,” and neoliberalism. Along with artist David Attwood he co-edited the book The Art of Laziness: Contemporary Art and Post-Work Politics.
