Full Description
Overflowing email inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Unending data extraction. Constant connectivity. Disruptive notification pings. Social media 'addiction'. Binge-watching. Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting.
This timely and urgent edited collection takes the theme of 'digital exhaustion' as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in our personal and professional lives. We offer 'exhaustion' as a broad and versatile conceptual prism for thinking through human-technology relations in the current climate of constant digital connectivity.
Digital exhaustion - along with a range of other related affects and experiences, including burnout, Zoom fatigue, information overload, social media overuse, and bed rotting - have all emerged as key structures of feeling in the present. As digital technologies become increasingly entrenched in our daily lives the need to engage in sustained dialogue about digital futures and the ways that these technologies are being deployed, embraced, and opposed is of pressing importance. This edited collection is responsive to this need.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
A.R.E. Taylor
1. Digital Exhaustion: An Introduction
A.R.E. Taylor, Linda Kopitz, Yiğit Soncul and Alexandra Kviat
SECTION I: PLATFORMS
2. The Email Charter: A Manifesto for Digital Humanity
A.R.E. Taylor
3. Work harder, not smarter: Passive Income and the Exhaustion of Influencer Labor
Grant Bollmer & Katherine Guinness
4. Do Hustlers Dream of Restful Sleep? The Digital Denial of Rejuvenation in an Age of Endless Work
Jamie Allen
5. Stepping Away from FIFA: An Autoethnographic Recollection of Burning Out Annually
Aditya Deshbandhu, Prashant Rai, and Baibhav Singh
6. Learning Management and the Production of Exhaustion: An Analysis of D2L Brightspace LMS
Mario Khreiche & Zhuoru Deng
SECTION II: PLACES
7. Fears of Exhaustion, Dreams of Resilience: The EU's Critical Raw Materials Act and the Cínovec Lithium Deposit
Johannes Bruder & Anastasia Kubrak
8. Exhausting Environments: Urban Installation(s) and the Green City
Linda Kopitz
9. Keep Calm and AmaZen: Materialities of Energy-as-Work in Digital Mindfulness Technologies
Natalia Stanusch
10. 'Virtual Commute' as Digital Remedy
Artur de Matos Alves & Ana Jorge
SECTION III: PRACTICES
11. Experimenting with Exhaustion: A Roundtable Conversation
The Fuck Healing (?) Collective and Linda Kopitz
12. Coaching Digital Minimalism: The Labour of Upkeeping Digital Media
by Ana Jorge and Patrícia Dias
13. Designated WIP Time: Craft Videos, Female Labour, and Online Communities of Care
Maryn Wilkinson
14. Touching Sounds: ASMR as a Digital Remedy
Yiğit Soncul
15. Digital Exhaustion and Human Rights Defenders
Siena Anstis
Coda: Z-mail
Steven B. Katz
Notes on Contributors
Index
