[Commlist] New Book: Digital Exhaustion: Burnout, Fatigue, and Overload in the Age of Constant Connectivity

Intellect is pleased to share that /Digital Exhaustion: Burnout, 
Fatigue, and Overload in the Age of Constant Connectivity 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/digital-exhaustion>/, edited by A.R.E. 
Taylor, Linda Kopitz, Yiğit Soncul and Alexandra Kviat, is out 
in paperback and hardback. This book is also available in *Open Access 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781835952504>*.

Unpacking the affective toll of constant connectivity, this book 
reframes digital exhaustion as a defining experience of our times. 
Overflowing inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Nonstop notifications. 
Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting. This timely and urgent 
edited collection introduces ‘digital exhaustion’ as a conceptual lens 
to critically examine the ever-expanding presence of digital 
technologies in our personal and professional lives. Drawing on 
interdisciplinary perspectives, this book explores how digital 
exhaustion is experienced, felt, and articulated in our hyper-connected 
culture – through burnout, brain rot, binge-watching, data extraction, 
energy consumption, and social media compulsion. Digital exhaustion 
emerges as a key structure of feeling in an era of constant connectivity 
and algorithmic demands.

Accessible yet theoretically grounded, this collection is an essential 
resource for scholars in cultural and technology studies, while also 
speaking to broader debates in anthropology, psychology, digital 
geography, urban studies, and consumer research. Responsive to the 
urgent need to engage in sustained dialogue about digital futures, this 
book offers fresh insights into how we might understand – and rethink – 
digital wellbeing, social media addiction, and the growing demand for a 
right to disconnect.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface* – /A.R.E. Taylor/

*1. *Digital Exhaustion: An Introduction – /A.R.E. Taylor, Linda Kopitz, 
Yiğit Soncul and Alexandra Kviat/

*_SECTION I: PLATFORMS_*
*2. *Email Exhaustion: The Management of the Overflowing Inbox and the 
Right to Disconnect – /A.R.E. Taylor/
*3. *Work Harder, Not Smarter: 'Passive Income' and the Exhaustion of 
Influencer Labor – /Grant Bollmer & Katherine Guinness/
*4. *Do Hustlers Dream of Restful Sleep? The Digital Denial of 
Rejuvenation in an Age of Endless Work – /Jamie Allen/
*5. *Stepping Away from /FIFA/: An Autoethnographic Recollection of 
Burning Out Annually – /Aditya Deshbandhu, Prashant Rai, and Baibhav Singh/
*6.* Learning Management and the Production of Exhaustion: An Analysis 
of D2L Brightspace LMS – /Mario Khreiche & Zhuoru Deng/

*_SECTION II: PLACES_*
*7. *Fears of Exhaustion, Dreams of Resilience: The EU's Critical Raw 
Materials Act and the Cínovec Lithium Deposit – /Johannes Bruder & 
Anastasia Kubrak/
*8. *Exhausting Environments: Urban Installation(s) and the Green City – 
/Linda Kopitz/
*9.* Keep /Calm /and /AmaZen/: Materialities of Energy-as-Work in 
Digital Mindfulness Technologies – /Natalia Stanusch/
*10. *‘Virtual Commute’ as Digital Remedy – /Artur de Matos Alves & Ana 
Jorge/

*_SECTION III: PRACTICES_*
*11.* Experimenting with Exhaustion: A Roundtable Conversation – /The 
/Fuck Healing (?)/Collective and Linda Kopitz/
*12.* Coaching Digital Minimalism: The Labour of Upkeeping Digital 
Media – /Ana Jorge and Patrícia Dias/
*13. *Designated WIP Time: Craft Videos, Female Labour, and Online 
Communities of Care – /Maryn Wilkinson/
*14. *Touching Sounds: ASMR as a Digital Remedy – /Yiğit Soncul/
*15. *Digital Exhaustion and Human Rights Defenders – /Siena Anstis/

*Coda: Z-mail *– /Steven B. Katz/
*Notes on Contributors
*
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