Checking phones while driving is genuine death drive made banal

Evidence

At the risk of a laboured pun, this is a perfect example of the death drive, which is defined not by the desire to die, but by being in the grip of a compulsion so powerful that it makes one indifferent to death. What’s remarkable here is the banal content of the drive. This isn’t the tragedy of something like The Red Shoes, in which the ballerina is killed by the sublime rapture of dance: these are people who are prepared to risk death so that they can open a 140 character message which they know perfectly well is likely to be inane. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1499

Categorization

• CANDY: The juxtaposition of sublime rapture versus inane 140-character messages risking death is a vivid, shareable formulation.
• XREF: connects to: Digital communication compulsion operates as death drive with banal content — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1499

Broader Connections

• Digital communication compulsion operates as death drive with banal content #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1499