[D66] The Age of Disruption | lareviewofbooks.org

[A.OUT]

On 09-11-19 10:49, A.OUT wrote:
> When I talk to young people of my generation […] they all say the same
> thing: we no longer have the dream of starting a family, of having
> children, or a trade, or ideals. […] All that is over and done with,
> because we’re sure that we will be the last generation, or one of the
> last, before the end.
> 
> These despairing words serve as a leitmotif to Stiegler’s fervent
> deconstruction of economic, political, and spiritual malaise. He
> dauntingly refers to the present’s “absence of epoch” — i.e., today’s
> lack of any significant political ethos. This “absence of epoch,” during
> a time of critical ecological changes, is why so many have been left
> disaffected, fast becoming (in Stiegler’s heavily italicized prose) “mad
> with sadness, mad with grief, mad with rage.”