Exhaustion is never the origin. It is the residue. It is what remains once time has already been taken, segmented, accelerated, and rendered unavailable for anything except recovery sufficient to return to extraction. To treat exhaustion as a psychological condition, a medical syndrome, or a failure of individual resilience is therefore a categorical error. Exhaustion…
Infinite accumulation
A system organised around infinite accumulation is structurally incompatible with finite life. Capitalism sustains the illusion keeping people too busy to notice what is being taken.
Time Is Not Neutral. Capitalism as the Theft of Mortal Duration
Time is not neutral, and it never has been. Neutrality is a political achievement, not an ontological fact, and like all such achievements it is the result of prolonged coercion, abstraction, and repetition until the violence disappears beneath habit. Capitalism requires time to appear as an empty, homogeneous medium, a transparent container through which life…
Photography of the Day – Snow
Morning, after a night of snowing Snow - Photography by Raffaello Palandri
Exhaustion as Contemplative Threshold: From Semantic Starvation to Non Reactive Clarity
Exhaustion, when approached contemplatively rather than therapeutically or morally, ceases to function as a diagnosis and begins to disclose itself as a threshold event, a structural turning point at which the regime of compulsory reaction loses its capacity to compel. This exhaustion is not muscular, emotional, or motivational. It is not the tiredness of effort,…
Relevance in our lives
Exhaustion marks the passage to a life organised around relevance, that renders large portions of capitalist life optional. It exposes how much of what was endured was never necessary.
Some things are up to us, and some are not up to us
From today's Book of the Day, I have, as usual, chosen a sentence for a deeper analysis. The sentence Τῶν ὄντων τὰ μὲν ἐφ’ ἡμῖν, τὰ δὲ οὐκ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν” Tōn ontōn ta men eph’ hēmin, ta de ouk eph’ hēmin Of existing things, some are up to us, and some are not up to…
Book of the Day – Ἐγχειρίδιον / Encheirídion
Today's Book of the Day is the Ἐγχειρίδιον / Encheirídion, written by Epictetus circa in 125 CE. Epictetus was born around 50 CE in Hierapolis in Phrygia, in what is now modern Turkey, and lived much of his early life as a slave in Rome. His enslavement was not incidental to his philosophy but constitutive…
Exhaustion as Political Symptom: Power, Extraction, and the Manufacture of Human Depletion
Exhaustion becomes political the moment it ceases to be accidental. When depletion appears not as an episodic consequence of excess effort but as a stable background condition across populations, professions, and generations, it signals the presence of organised extraction rather than individual failure. To name exhaustion as a political symptom is to recognise it as…
Photography of the Day – Brigade de Cuisine
Nyx and Hecate helping Brigade de Cuisine - Photography by Raffaello Palandri
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