contents

1. Backdrop of Capitalism-in-Decay

2. A Cry for Help from the Doomers

3. OK Boomer: The Digital Commons?

4. Conclusion: Zoomers as the Failed Bourgeois

abstract

In the following paper, I will examine the generational rift between the purported “Boomers” and “Zoomers” in the digital schema. In doing so, I will unpack the ways in which the dominant digital ideology structures the lives of individuals – providing the symbolic frame to define themselves against and within society through an internally splintered digital subjectivity. I argue that the ideological conflict between Boomers and Zoomers is reflective of much deeper antagonisms underlying the structure of class society.