Running an open-comment intellectual blog produced visceral anxiety for its author.

Evidence

Yesterday, when I closed most of the current comments boxes down, you can’t imagine the relief I felt. I could come to k-punk without feeling sick with anxiety about what unthought-out oedipalised rage, overgrown adolescent boy sulks and gliberal stupid American platitudes (“hey man, all that Marxist lingo makes my cringes cringe…”) I would have to deal with. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2366

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the book’s broader claims about communicative capitalism’s anxiety-producing dynamics (ch101, ch115 on fragmented attention and de-activating anxiety).