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That slow erosion of inner presence is the heart of The Thinker’s essay on burnout. Drawing on philosophers Byung-Chul Han and Heidegger, he writes about how modern workers are conditioned to optimize, perform, and self-regulate until their labor becomes disconnected from any internal source. Meaning isn’t lost through exhaustion, it rather slips a... See more

Burnout comes from a gap between what you do and what you believe in

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Matt Haig • The Humans

In his late writings, Michel Foucault examined classical Roman biographies to probe how individual subjects came to be formed not only through relationships of power and knowledge (or power/knowledge) but also co-constituted themselves through intentional practices as ethical subjects.3

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths.

Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Metamodern Guides 1)

Hanzi Freinacht

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ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is antisocial, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.

Nathan Gardels • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

Capitalism is eliminating otherness wholesale in order to subordinate everything to consumption. Eros, however, represents an asymmetrical relationship to the Other. As such, it interrupts the exchange rate. Otherness admits no bookkeeping. It does not appear in the balance of debt and credit.

Byung-Chul Han • The Agony of Eros

However, since the global financial crisis of 2008 people all over the world have become increasingly disillusioned with the liberal story. Walls and firewalls are back in vogue. Resistance to immigration and to trade agreements is mounting. Ostensibly democratic governments undermine the independence of the judiciary system, restrict the freedom o

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Giorgio Agamben

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