The Culture of Procrastination

ebook Deferred Time as a Symptom of a Contemporary Malaise · Time, Work, and the Weight of Life

By Antonio Carlos

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To postpone is not merely to fail. It is a language, a symptom, a gesture. This book explores procrastination not as a flaw to be corrected, but as a cultural and existential phenomenon to be listened to. Between the refusal to act and the fear of beginning, the contemporary subject finds themselves immersed in demands for performance, inner surveillance, and the ideal of perfection.

Through forty philosophical meditations, this work investigates the delayed gesture: its pain, its resistance, its silent force. Far from solutions, it offers thought — thought as presence, as risk, as interruption that still speaks.

The Culture of Procrastination