Project Aims
To argue Foster Wallace’s popular talk This is Water highlights Mindfulness as an ideology.
How?
Foster Wallace highlights how Mindfulness key aspect of its thought believes in a Kantian autonomous/individualistic/ a-historical subject transcendental subject.
Implicates argument within the social context – Mindfulness is an antidote to stressful neo-liberal conditions
Economically and ideologically productive system of thought – 3.72 trillion dollar industry
Ideologically repressive – It blames you for your mental health problems!
Could Mindfulness be self destructive?