Anti-Capture theory
Reclaim your identity, time, and nervous system from the structures that flatten you.
the problem
I call it capture.Capture is the systematic extraction of identity, attention, and nervous system capacity for the maintenance of modern systems.What looks like “burnout” is a structural condition: a body and mind shaped by technologies, timelines, and economies that demand constant availability while eroding agency, coherence, and orientation.
the symptoms of capture
Capture presents in the body and mind as:
• fractured attention and poor working memory
• chronic overactivation of your threat system
• emotional numbness or instability
• losing track of time
• difficulty sensing your own internal state
• compulsive self-monitoring
• trouble making decisions or knowing what you want
• feeling unreal or ghostlike to yourself
the framework
1. Systemic Naming
How institutions, narratives, and categories shape what you can perceive about your own life, and how to regain perceptual autonomy.2. Nervous System Function
Why chronic acceleration and digital saturation alter your baseline physiology, and what it takes to re-regulate a body under structural stress.3. Temporal and Ecological Life Design
How modern time and disconnection from place reorganize your internal rhythm, and how to rebuild one that is compatible with being human.4. Identity Rewilding
How imposed or performative identities replace emergent ones, and what is required to reconstruct a self that is not algorithmic or reactive.5. Decaptured Praxis
The practical layer: daily structures, counter-habits, and boundary systems that interrupt capture instead of reinforcing it.
the work
Reclamation is slow work. It’s the reconstruction of orientation, agency, and interiority after prolonged structural pressure.The work involves:• Deconditioning perception
Identifying what forces act on you, and how they’ve shaped your attention and sense-making.• Rebuilding capacity
Restoring the physiological floor required for clarity, direction, and coherent action.• Reorienting in time
Reestablishing pace, seasonality, and long-horizon meaning.• Reinhabiting identity
Recovering parts of the self made dormant or strategically suppressed.• Practicing counter-capture
Establishing habits, environments, and relationships that resist system-level flattening.
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