TRAUMATIZED. THE NEW POLITICS OF PUBLIC SUFFERING

What happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how "authenticity" became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance capitalism's greatest coup: convincing us that wounds define us and that accommodating each other's trauma is more important than challenging the powerful. Catherine Liu delivers an unflinching diagnosis of our current crisis, rooted as it is in the collapse of liberal p...[Read more]