In a world that demands faith in progress & growth, LIMBO is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded, & trapped. Fusing family memoir with a meditation on creative block, depression, solitude, class, place & the intractable politics of our present moment, Dan Fox draws upon his experiences as a writer to consider the role that fallow periods & states of impasse play in art & life. LIMBO is an essay about getting by when you can`t get along, employing a cast of artists, exiles, ghosts, hermits & sailors
- including the author`s older brother who, in 1985, left England for good to sail the world
- to reflect on the creative, emotional & political consequences of being stuck, & how these are also crucial to our understanding of inspiration, flow & productivity. From Thomas Aquinas to radical behavioural experiments, from creative constraints to the social horrors of THE TWILIGHT ZONE & Get Out`s SUNKEN PLACE, LIMBO argues that there can be no growth without stagnancy, no movement without inactivity, & no progress without refusal.