Mikkel Krause Frantzen is an associate professor in environmental aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen and Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is co-PI of the research project OIKOS: A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century, and the author of Going Nowhere, Slow (2019) and Klodens Fald (2021). He is also the author of the LARB essay “A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health” (2019), of which “Endgame Emotions: The Melting of Time, the Mourning of the World” is a continuation.