Happiness is a hot topic. We own self-help and colouring books; our workplace offers mindfulness training; we are cultivating our hygge and contemplating our ikigai; Australia ranks among the top ten countries on the global happiness index. Do we really need to talk about happiness? We do.
HAPPINESS
Current issue
Special Issue Editor: Juliane Römhild
VOL 4, NO 2 (2019)
Editorial
Editorial: We need to talk – Happiness and Critique
Juliane Römhild reconsiders the necessity of happiness to the Humanities and the Arts.
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Articles
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
Shane A. McCoy highlights how Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Lucy allows its readers to learn, and re-imagine unhappiness and negative affect as possible world-making projects.
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Injurious Acts
B. Lee Aultman argues for an aesthetic reconsideration of everyday life via the trans ordinary: scenes of everyday life-making for trans people.
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A Queer and Pleasant Stranger, Or: “You Can Look At My Butt”
Rachel Walerstein reads Kirsten Lepore’s short film, Hi Stranger, as an ambivalent object that inspires both happiness and disgust
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How the Story Ends
Heather Schell and Katherine Larsen weave together a number of people in relevant fields and professions to respond to a handful of prompts, creating a dynamic, polyphonic exploration of the…
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