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150: Spiritual Influencer Theory

Conspirituality

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The Anxiety of Charisma

Yoga and new age spirituality are capitalistic endeavors with this huge problem, which is that they have no real concrete product. We're developing a picture of the spiritual influencer as being anxious because the charisma is compensatory. Jean Baudrillard in the Ecstasy of Communication published in 1987 is reflecting on the dissociative feelings of trying to do work in late capitalism on labor and production.

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