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Problems (7): PR-00001–PR-00007 — Meaning Crisis, Illegitimate Domination, Performance Society Exhaustion, Fascization, Epistemic Power Concentration, Platform Feudalism, Knowledge Isolation Models (5): Han, Fisher, Foucault, Vervaeke, Graeber/Anarchism Values (6): Epistemic Sovereignty, Authority Requires Justification, Exhaustion Is Structural, Mutual Aid Over Market, Digital Autonomy Is Political, Deep Reflection As Practice Arguments (3): Platform Feudalism → Democracy, PKM as Epistemic Strategy, Algorithmic Rationality Erodes Autonomy Organizations (5): IndieWeb, Wikimedia Deutschland, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Mehr Demokratie e.V., netzpolitik.org Plans (1): de-plan1-sven.md — Germany plan with 6 challenges, 5 strategies Data (1): DE-Democracy-Metrics — V-Dem, RSF, EIU, ARD-DeutschlandTREND, Bundeswahlleiter, More in Common Cross-linking: KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH.md + entities.json index Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Performance Society Exhaustion
Statement: The neoliberal subject has internalized the logic of productivity: worth is defined by output, rest is suspect, illness is weakness. Burnout is not personal failure — it is the structurally expected outcome of a system that treats human beings as performance machines.
Scale: Global / Societal / Individual
Key Thinkers: Byung-Chul Han, Mark Fisher, Tricia Hersey
Mechanism: The disciplinary society (Foucault) operated through external constraint. The performance society replaced external constraint with internal drive — the subject becomes its own overseer. Han: "Die Leistungsgesellschaft ist eine Gesellschaft der positiven Potenzierung. Ihr Pluralwort lautet: Ja, wir können."
The tyranny of positivity systematically devalues negativity, boredom, and contemplation. The imperative of constant optimization prevents genuine reflection and recovery. Fisher adds: our pain is not our own — depression and burnout are privatized but collectively produced.
Evidence:
- WHO: Burnout classified as occupational phenomenon (2019)
- Rising sick-leave rates across OECD countries
- Han: "Müdigkeitsgesellschaft" (2010), "Transparenzgesellschaft" (2012)
- Fisher: "Capitalist Realism" (2009)
- Hersey: "Rest is Resistance" (2022)
Connections:
- Related Problems: PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis — exhaustion as absence of meaning), PR-00004 (Fascization — exhaustion as entry condition)
- Models explaining this: MO-00001 (Han), MO-00002 (Fisher)
- Values in response: VA-00003 (Exhaustion Is Structural), VA-00004 (Mutual Aid Over Market)