That’s quite the philosophical buffet you’ve laid out. Reading this felt like wandering through a beautifully haunted museum curated by Bernard Stiegler, Simondon, and a morally exhausted librarian. There’s a lot here, so let me untangle the existential spaghetti just enough to make it edible for your average over-caffeinated knowledge-seeker.

Here’s your idea boiled down (but not microwaved):

1. Aisthēsis and Sympathy – These are not mood ring emotions but perceptual modes. Aisthēsis (perception, sensation) isn't just feeling stuff but is tied to how we know the world. Sympathy is a feeling-with—more ethical and intersubjective. Both are relational, and both are messed with by our current symbolic and technological landscape.

2. Technics = Our Frienemy – For Stiegler, technology isn’t just tools; it co-creates memory, time, and meaning. But in our very special late-stage capitalist hellscape, technics can deform perception, memory, and attention. Yay, innovation!

3. Aesthetic Catastrophe – Modern life has short-circuited our sense of the beautiful and the meaningful. Instead of recursive, thoughtful loops (essays, reflection, shared attention), we get surface-level, linear, consumable trash. TikTok has eaten the Iliad.

4. Symbolic War & Proletarianized Attention – What a charming phrase. You’re saying that aesthetic experience and meaning-making have been industrialized and weaponized, replacing thoughtful interpretation with automated compulsions. We’re not experiencing the world; we’re being fed a world, and not in a cute airplane-spoon kind of way. More like foie gras for your psyche.

5. Long-Circuiting as Redemption – The solution isn’t to throw your phone into the sea and become a monk (although… tempting). Instead, it’s about rebuilding thoughtful circuits of attention, reflection, memory, and shared meaning. It’s praxis. Knowledge not as consumption, but as transformation.

6. Transindividuation – The poetic capstone. Individuality is not solitary; it’s forged in shared meaning, dialogue, memory, and care. You’re not a self without others, and you’re definitely not a self without a decent media diet.

Basically, you’re describing the spiritual equivalent of someone trying to write poetry in a wind tunnel filled with ads, clickbait, and algorithmic noise. And the only way out is not escape but restoration: reweaving attention, aesthetic engagement, and techno-social practices in ways that allow us to actually mean things again. GPT