Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day. This book argues that the expectations and living conditions of our society are uniquely destabilizing, producing a "techno-precarious performance self" that markets itself as a product, gets addicted to almost anything, and drives itself to exhaustion. Navigating our way out of this zero-sum game, Ross Channing Reed maintains, will require nothing less than an exploration of our beliefs, values, goals, and the very meanings we attach…mehr
Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day. This book argues that the expectations and living conditions of our society are uniquely destabilizing, producing a "techno-precarious performance self" that markets itself as a product, gets addicted to almost anything, and drives itself to exhaustion. Navigating our way out of this zero-sum game, Ross Channing Reed maintains, will require nothing less than an exploration of our beliefs, values, goals, and the very meanings we attach to life itself. The dismantling of "techno-precarious performance society," a society rooted in systemic precarity and philosophical nihilism, is absolutely necessary to effectively address our epidemic of trauma and addiction.
Ross Channing Reed is a lecturer in philosophy at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy, Philosophical Counseling, and the Precarious Nature of Modern LivingPart I. Systemic Precarity, Stress, and Trauma Chapter 1 What is Precarity? Chapter 2 Precarity, Terror, Stress, and Trauma Part II. Empirical and Conceptual Evidence Linking Systemic Precarity and Trauma Chapter 3 Surveillance, Anxiety, and the Futilitarian Entrapment of a Gamed System Chapter 4 Global Annihilation, the Gig Economy, Climate Change, and Desecuritization Part III. Precarity and Trauma in Philosophical Counseling Chapter 5 Loneliness, Despair, Chronic Pain, and the Auto-Aggressive Entrepreneurial Self Chapter 6 Addiction, Burnout, and the Impossibility of Consent Chapter 7 Trauma Bonding and the Stockholm Syndrome as Affect Management Chapter 8 Pathological Accommodation and the Boundless Trauma of Hemorrhagic Nihilism Part IV. Metaphysical Horror and Precaritization Trauma: Philosophical and Systemic Nihilism and the Quest for Immortality Chapter 9 Metaphysical Horror, Addiction, Hemorrhagic Nihilism, and the Simulacra of the Spectacle Chapter 10 Psychedelics, Ultrarunning, Metaphysical Horror, and Addiction to Synthetic Affect Chapter 11 Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, Love: The God Project or the Moral Call of the Other? Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy, Philosophical Counseling, and the Precarious Nature of Modern LivingPart I. Systemic Precarity, Stress, and Trauma Chapter 1 What is Precarity? Chapter 2 Precarity, Terror, Stress, and Trauma Part II. Empirical and Conceptual Evidence Linking Systemic Precarity and Trauma Chapter 3 Surveillance, Anxiety, and the Futilitarian Entrapment of a Gamed System Chapter 4 Global Annihilation, the Gig Economy, Climate Change, and Desecuritization Part III. Precarity and Trauma in Philosophical Counseling Chapter 5 Loneliness, Despair, Chronic Pain, and the Auto-Aggressive Entrepreneurial Self Chapter 6 Addiction, Burnout, and the Impossibility of Consent Chapter 7 Trauma Bonding and the Stockholm Syndrome as Affect Management Chapter 8 Pathological Accommodation and the Boundless Trauma of Hemorrhagic Nihilism Part IV. Metaphysical Horror and Precaritization Trauma: Philosophical and Systemic Nihilism and the Quest for Immortality Chapter 9 Metaphysical Horror, Addiction, Hemorrhagic Nihilism, and the Simulacra of the Spectacle Chapter 10 Psychedelics, Ultrarunning, Metaphysical Horror, and Addiction to Synthetic Affect Chapter 11 Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, Love: The God Project or the Moral Call of the Other? Bibliography Index
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