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When observing the postmodern individual, we could say that, of all the transformations they undergo, one of the most relevant is their loss of narrativity, the increasingly acute difficulty in telling their own story and creating a narrative. An illness that, despite its common affectation, is suffered to a greater extent by those born in the digital age. Between philosophy, sociology and psychoanalysis, and based on the study of new cultural phenomena, Lola López Mondéjar deploys a cartography of this stunting of the narrative capacity. An atrophy associated not only with the difficulty in putting thought into words, but with a deficit of thought itself and of imagination. In the capitalism of attention, where they are always surrounded by stimuli, the citizen seems destined to become a minimal self, with hardly any self-awareness and, paradoxically, inattentive, incapable of conversing, of touching, of understanding the other. And if the inability to translate our experiences into language empties us of them, standardizes us and turns us into emotional illiterates, into uncritical and individualistic citizens, the question that arises in this incisive and extraordinary essay is: are we less human today?