It Isn't You...Its Your Environment

In a world where everything feels uncertain, where identity shifts, attention is fragmented, and life is increasingly lived through images: What does it mean to actually be present? This video explores the idea of the unstable self through philosophy, literature, and art. Drawing on thinkers like Guy Debord, Anne Carson, and Dario Gentili, I look at how contemporary life shaped by spectacle, neoliberalism, and constant mediation can leave us feeling disconnected from our own desires, our own time, and even our own lives. How might we live differently within these conditions? My Instagram - josephinewritess My Substack and personal essays - https://writesjosephine.substack.com 💌 Josephine Podcast is now live ONLY on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fNmJpi... 0:00 Lecture on the history of skywriting 1:22 Intro to Anne Carson 3:18 The effects of mortality 11:58 The age of Precarity and Neoliberalisms effects 16:35 Appearance over depth 30:12 Concluding thoughts References & Works Mentioned Books & Essays • Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle • Dario Gentili, The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government • Felix S. H. Yeung, Mourning Neoliberalism • Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat Poetry & Literature • Anne Carson, Lecture on the History of Skywriting