The feeling is specific. It is not just tiredness. It is a low-level frequency humming in the base of your skull.
In this episode, we perform an autopsy on "Digital Exhaustion." We look beyond social media addiction to diagnose the deeper mechanism: The Achievement Society. Why does taking a break feel like a threat to your survival? Why have we turned our personalities into brands? And is there any way to escape the "digital panopticon"?
We explore the works of:
- Byung-Chul Han: The violence of positivity and the internalized boss.
- René Girard: Mimetic Desire and why you don't know what you want.
- Mark Fisher: Hauntology and the "slow cancellation of the future."
- Édouard Glissant: The radical "Right to Opacity."
Chapters:
(00:00) The Unpaid Internship of Existence
(04:47) Who is the Audience?
(06:36) Mimetic Desire (René Girard)
(09:28) Emotional Capitalism (13:52)
Hauntology (Mark Fisher)
(16:36) The Solution: Strategic Incoherence
If this is the kind of thinking that doesn't leave when the tab closes.
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