Bajro Salkunic

ONTOLOGY OF DISTRACTION: FOMO AND THE CRISIS OF THE SUBJECT IN POE'S "THE MAN OF THE CROWD"

This paper investigates the phenomenon of the "fear of missing out" (FOMO) as an ontological and existential structure of the subject, proceeding from an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Man of the Crowd." Although FOMO is most commonly understood in contempor...