Book angle
The book inverts the religion of optimization and argues for putting resistance back exactly where speed was quietly destroying something load-bearing.
Why now
This concept can guide product teams, founders, writers, and everyday life rituals alike.
Chapter references
- Epilogue - The Agency Stack
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FUTUROSHOCK: When Reality Gets Outsourced
Primary manuscript and conceptual spine for the entire atlas.
How to Do Nothing
An essential counterpoint on attention, refusal, place, and selective disengagement.
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
The route from discipline to self-managed control and internalized coercion.
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
A crucial precursor on temporal dislocation and perpetual presentness.