@katejohns.bsky.social

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

mental distress is not opposed to political agency. its recession cannot be said to signal the conditions for “capable” political action. a capacity resides in distress—it is just one dominant sociality abhors because it disturbs and disrupts sanity’s preeminence over and regulation of sociality.