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The Post-Individual by Yancey Strickler

Solitarist identity is an example of dichotomous or binary thinking, one of the cognitive distortions that are evidently becoming more common, at least among young adults in the United States, according to George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s analysis in “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Psychologists studying binary thinking have also found it... See more

Tim Gorichanaz • Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA

surveillance culture

alexi gunner • 2 cards

Human Flourishing

Nick Bennett • 15 cards

The modern moral order of the buffered self, cordoned off from ontological encounter, asserts that no one is allowed to judge anyone. People are not sinful, just sick, and it is rude to point out and judge sick people.

Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God

Subtitle: Contemporary Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution

Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

emotional distress

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Under neoliberalism, a market ethic works to reconstitute subjectivities, calling into being subjects who are self-motivating and entrepreneurial, who will make sense of their lives through discourses of freedom, responsibility, and choice—no matter how constrained the latter may be (e.g., by poverty or racism).