“Global forgetting” and extreme communicative events

Have you ever heard of brain rot or “global forgetfulness”?

This phenomenon describes the decline in memory, focus, and critical thinking caused by excessive digital stimuli and the logic of the “attention economy.”

The August essay in CSP shows how hyperstimulation can erase collective references, weaken connections to reality, and open space for post-truths and denialist narratives.

How are we dealing with the erasure of our collective memory?

Read the full text on the magazine’s website.