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TCCE was delighted to present the roundtable event Health, Anxiety and Capitalism, opened by presentations from Dr Catherine Maffioletti(Ravensbourne University London), Dr Maria Walsh (Chelsea College of Arts), Dr Ayesha Ahmad (University College London, St George’s University of London), Dr Dan Taylor (Goldsmiths University), Tamar Shlaim (Marketing Director, Repeater Books).

The event that took place on December 6th 2018 at Ravensbourne University London, and used the publication of the book k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (Repeater Books, November 2018) as a starting point to explore how mental health issues can be understood as systemic within neo-liberalism, and how collectively envisaging concepts of leisure in a post-capitalist world can impact wellbeing.