{"id":871,"date":"2014-09-26T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=871"},"modified":"2014-09-26T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:21:08","slug":"the-culture-of-depression-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2014\/09\/26\/the-culture-of-depression-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Depression: Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Howard (139.209 Speaking: Theory and Practice, Albany) will be presenting a dialogue on The Culture of Depression next Wed 1st of October @1pm in QB6 at the Albany Campus. This dialogue will explore the idea that depression is not the psychological epidemic it is presented as by the media, governments, medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies.\u00a0 Rather, from a critical discourse and cross-cultural perspective, I will argue that &#8216;depression&#8217; is first and foremost a social phenomenon before it is psychological.\u00a0 As such, it relies on &#8216;knowledge-power&#8217; games and therefore cannot be trusted.\u00a0 Depression, I will venture to suggest, is not a disease of individuals, but a\u00a0social pathology related to the cultural logic of neoliberal capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-872\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/image001.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"image001.jpg\" width=\"607\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/image001.jpg.jpeg 607w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/image001.jpg-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/image001.jpg-100x70.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Howard (139.209 Speaking: Theory and Practice, Albany) will be presenting a dialogue on The Culture of Depression next Wed 1st of October @1pm in QB6 at the Albany Campus. This dialogue will explore the idea that depression is not the psychological epidemic it is presented as by the media, governments, medical institutions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albany","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}