232 definitions
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The Burnout Society
118 concepts · 232 definitions
- acceleration1
- achievement society6
- achievement-subject9
- action2
- activity2
- aggression2
- animal laborans2
- annoyance1
- attention2
- bare life3
- Bartleby7
- between1
- boredom4
- burnout4
- can1
- capital3
- capitalism1
- character2
- choice1
- closure1
- community1
- competition1
- compulsion1
- computer2
- conscience1
- consensus1
- contemplation4
- culture1
- dancing1
- delay1
- depression17
- difference1
- diligence1
- disciplinary society2
- doping2
- ego2
- ego-ideal2
- exhaustion1
- experience2
- exploitation2
- faith1
- fatigue1
- flexibility2
- foreignness1
- form1
- freedom5
- friends1
- future1
- globalization1
- gratification1
- health5
- homo sacer5
- human society1
- hunger artist1
- hyperattention1
- hysteria1
- immune system2
- immunity5
- inoculation1
- interruption1
- interval1
Tiredness (n.) is being tired with you rather than tired of you.
Tiredness (n.) opens a between by loosening the strictures of the ego.
Tiredness (n.) is worldless and world-destroying.
Tiredness (n.) makes touch reciprocal: one touches and is touched.
Depression (n.) utterly lacks gravity.
Depression (n.) is tired of having to become himself.
Depression (n.) says “Nothing is possible” in a society that insists “Nothing is impossible.”
Depression (n.) is the democratization of the exceptional.
The Achievement-subject (n.) deems itself free when in fact it is bound like Prometheus.
Achievement-subject (n.) is lord and master of itself yet free only to obey itself.
The Achievement-subject (n.) performs more and more because the structure of gratification has broken down.
The Achievement-subject (n.) is simultaneously perpetrator and victim, master and slave.
Bartleby (n.) is not worn out by the project of being an “I” because copying leaves no room for initiative.
Bartleby (n.) is not a tale of de-creation but a story of exhaustion.
Bartleby (n.) says “I would prefer not to” from apathy, not from the sovereign power of refusal.
Bartleby (n.) is empty not with divine potentiality but with the loss of every relation to world and meaning.
The Achievement society (n.) is the destination of a culture that reduces life to functions and capacities to be maximized.
Achievement society (n.) makes Unlimited Can its positive governing verb.
The Achievement society (n.) makes the self-styled sovereign into its own homo sacer.
Achievement society (n.) replaces the prison and factory with the fitness studio, office tower, airport, and shopping mall.
Freedom (n.) discovers that being its own master makes it its own homo sacer.
Freedom (n.) makes freedom and constraint coincide in the demand to maximize achievement.
Freedom (n.) switches abruptly into violence when compulsion inhabits it.
Freedom (n.) from the Other switches into narcissistic self-relation.
Health (n.) rises to divine status after the death of God.
The Health (n.) begins when life has grown flat as a coin.
Health (n.) is the new goddess of bare life.
Health (n.) becomes purposiveness without purpose when it loses every reason to remain healthy.
Violence of positivity (n.) is a terror of immanence that leads to psychic infarctions.
Violence of positivity (n.) flourishes invisibly in a permissive and pacified society because it needs no enemy.
The Violence of positivity (n.) takes the form of exhaustion and inclusion.
Violence of positivity (n.) does not deprive or exclude; it saturates and exhausts.
The Homo sacer (n.) of achievement society are too alive to die and too dead to live.
Homo sacer (n.) is bare life placed outside the law so it may be destroyed at any time.
Homo sacer (n.) becomes a creature of sovereignty only when its religious origin is cut away.
Homo sacer (n.) may not be sacrificed precisely because he already belongs to the offended deity.
Immunity (n.) refuses not the Other, but too much of the Same.
Immunity (n.) eliminates the foreign for its Otherness even when it poses no danger.
Immunity (n.) asserts the Own by negating the negativity of the Other.
The Immunity (n.) divides the world into inside and outside, friend and foe, self and other.