Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space
Evidence
The privatisation of stress has been part of a project that has aimed at an almost total destruction of the concept of the public — the very thing upon which psychic well-being fundamentally depends. What we urgently need is a new politics of mental health organised around the problem of public space. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1503
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the private-public boundary work in ‘World of Strangers’ and to theories of the social determinants of mental health. — connects to: Perceived personal permanence is borrowed from stable surroundings, not from the for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1283; Urban parks act as ecological traps when noise outweighs perceived therapeutic benefit — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 2089; How fully urban residents claim space depends on role and group support — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 725 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Urbanites symbolically transform public space into private space to reduce stranger contact
#qualifies(0.78) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 533 - Perceived personal permanence is borrowed from stable surroundings, not from the for-itself
#complicates(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1283 - Urban parks act as ecological traps when noise outweighs perceived therapeutic benefit
#qualifies(0.75) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 2089 - Institutionalized space appropriation produces territorially bounded social solidarity
#expands(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1395 - Social fragmentation precedes and causes psychic fragmentation, not inner nature
#contradicts(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 793 - Sensation involves a magical inherence of lived and living rather than spatial belonging
#contradicts(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 844 - Spatial scale determines whether a group feels insulated or isolated in public
#expands(0.72) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 824 - Navigating urban life ultimately depends on self-knowledge, not location knowledge
#contradicts(0.72) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 640 - Avoiding fearfully-labeled city areas costs urbanites movement and home feeling
#qualifies(0.72) - Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space
#qualifies(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889 - How fully urban residents claim space depends on role and group support
#expands(0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 725 - Living in constructed urban environments severs people from ecological consequences
#qualifies(0.70) - Personal well-being often depends on the enjoyment of specific others
#qualifies(0.70) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 147