Why are people ready to resign? — Part II Section 1/3

– What is a life in complexity as a digital human in the infosphere?

What is a life in complexity as a digital human in the infosphere?

Original ideation writing title: The Great resignation & the Great gig in the sky.

Preface and content

Part I and a half ended with a sketch of the contemporary discussion. Part II picks up from that with the condition of living in a digital world as informational organisms (Floridi). The sketching continues in Part II non-exhaustively by situating and illuminating links to and missing anchors between the discussion and human conditioning in modernity.

In a constantly changing world with increasing speed (movement in space per time unit) the pandemic has provided unprecedented acceleration and deceleration (the change in speed per time unit). What are the potential concepts that can form a new mindset in the midst of turbulence building on what we already know? Any movement (in classic physics) is preconditioned by friction and any stability by inertia. Change is hence challenged to overcome both. Then it can seem odd to throw in the idea of permanence. Our cultures are however built on permanence, not to be mistaken for permanent, but rather as a dynamic stasis…