Description

11:11 Press, paperback

Publication Date: March 14, 2023

Publisher Marketing: Somewhere between a journal and a report, a question and an answer, Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche takes up the only serious problem in philosophy and submits it to the only kind of scrutiny proper to it: the personal. In arriving at this personal account, however, Nao detours through decidedly un-private, public cultural touchpointsthe lives of celebrities, religion, television shows, sporting eventsand in doing so lays bare how even this most subjective of phenomena grows out of an endless encounter with the world. Race has a part in this encounter. So does migration. As does money. Growing out of these entanglements, queer affinities bud and bloom in this textwhich, made up of pen-and-ink drawings, photographs, and Naos playful spin on pilish, is simultaneously constrained and unconstrainedto become the bonds that can make one want to live on.