Constant stimulus availability fundamentally alters the form depression takes

Evidence

Depressive hedonia would be just a way of thinking about the form that depression takes in a world where stimulus is always available, I think. I don’t think we’ve remotely got to grips with the affective consequences of the kind of cyberspace-matrix that the young especially are embedded in. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2124

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher’s own coinage being unpacked in dialogue form.
• XREF: Connects to the wider concept of capital’s ‘cyberspace-matrix’ and its affective conditioning, echoing themes in Capitalist Realism.