Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.
suffering is conceptualized in ways that protect the current economy from criticism—namely, as rooted in individual rather than social causes, which means we must favor self over social reform
If you suffer, the fault resides within you, and so too does the solution: You need to learn how to think, feel, and act differently

Our society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not be able to last – in a world where anthropogenic climate change is a constant and growing threat.
Of course families have fallen apart in every generation. But even a few decades ago children from broken homes had communities, they had neighbourhoods. Now our families fall apart and there is nothing, nobody, to catch us. We live far from extended family. We are more estranged than ever. And I can’t get across how little familiarity Gen Z has
... See more