Communications: 'psychotherapy in the anthropocene'
Digital comms and copy for ‘Buried Alive in the Blues: Psychotherapy and the Anthropocene’, a conference organised by The PA with Timothy Morton and Anouchka Grose:
'As human action is the biggest contributor to the ecological devastation we face, our planetary age has been called the Anthropocene - even the Capitalocene - situating our species central to the forces that are decimating it as an ‘organon of extinction’, to borrow Ray Brassier’s haunting phrase.
We're facing a ‘polycrisis’ so multifaceted that to get our bearings at all feels like an impossible demand, with the rise of technofeudalism, protests and dissent quashed amid growing global authoritarianism, and anxiety levels rising like the ocean.
As Franco Berardi puts it, the psychosphere is plunging into geopsychosis; a massive dehiscence between the human world and the still living Earth, from which, ecologically, we cannot separate ourselves.'
'As human action is the biggest contributor to the ecological devastation we face, our planetary age has been called the Anthropocene - even the Capitalocene - situating our species central to the forces that are decimating it as an ‘organon of extinction’, to borrow Ray Brassier’s haunting phrase.
We're facing a ‘polycrisis’ so multifaceted that to get our bearings at all feels like an impossible demand, with the rise of technofeudalism, protests and dissent quashed amid growing global authoritarianism, and anxiety levels rising like the ocean.
As Franco Berardi puts it, the psychosphere is plunging into geopsychosis; a massive dehiscence between the human world and the still living Earth, from which, ecologically, we cannot separate ourselves.'
