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Exhaustion absolutely contains phenomena like burnout, depression, or fatigue, but also socioecological exhaustions — the reality of them and their feeling. The exhaustion of capitalism-as-we-know-it is conveyed in concepts like “zombie neoliberalism” that have permeated even mainstream business discourse. The exhaustions in existing social life and with that life; the exhaustions with, as Berlant suggests, “conventional good life fantasies.”
The Exhausted of the Earth
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Productivity consultants intentionally encouraged workers to change their sense of accomplishment from the group to the individual. Through self-imposed discipline, workers could transform their labor into a championship contest with colleagues. This powerful combination of management and engineering innovation helped to remove collective thinking from our understanding of work and its organization.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
For something to become an object of commerce, it must be made scarce first.
Sacred Economics
Charles Eisenstein
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