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PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Bartleby and Hyperactivity

I think Bartleby is supposed to be a sort of, I mean again, Bartleby seems to be before the burnout society might have developed. It's an old story, but he's arguing against these other reasons. And one of Eric's favorite quotes comes out of here, so I'm not gonna take it away from you,. The contrast of hyperactivity as the hyper-positivity that eventually just drains your ability to pay attention to things carefully in what we might say is a phenomenological sense of being aware of your surroundings.

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