I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
What’s striking … is the apparent shift from a politics of reason to a politics of experience… In the eyes of many, personal experience has become the new way of being at home in the world. It’s like the bubble that holds the foam at a distance. Experience nowadays trumps reason… We’re led to believe that sensibility, emotions, affect, sentiments... See more
Benjamin H. Bratton • Touchlessness
As digital immersion replaces the environmental detachment typical of literacy, perception-based knowing displaces conception-based knowledge. Subjective experience—even feelings—is celebrated as the source of undeniable truth, while objective truth is rejected.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
Identitarianism is mirrored in—would not be possible without—the widespread preoccupation with authentic selves. In the future we may be able to look back at toxic wantrepreneurship, white entitlement, and identity politics both “left” and ethnonationalist as being underwritten by the same philosophical blunder.