Book angle
The manuscript names numbness as the stage where the attention economy curdles into an indifference economy.
Why now
This is a useful diagnostic for media, creativity, and the emotional consequences of infinite synthetic abundance.
Chapter references
- Chapter 6 - The Numbness
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FUTUROSHOCK: When Reality Gets Outsourced
Primary manuscript and conceptual spine for the entire atlas.
The Burnout Society
A compact theory of achievement subjectivity, exhaustion, and self-exploitation.
How to Do Nothing
An essential counterpoint on attention, refusal, place, and selective disengagement.
Alone Together
A foundational text on companionship without reciprocity and technologically mediated solitude.