The Pythia speaks to you

From the Oracle of Delphi to Ronald Reagan's personal astrologer, the story is full of people resorting to the help of "experts" to optimize the different aspects of their existence. In contemporary culture, this trend has turned into a real collective obsession: the internet teeming with experts with millions of followers ready to advise you in every aspect of your existence…from happy love gurus to Instagram psychologists. Drawing on the writings of many philosophers and sociologists, from Zygmunt Bauman to Slavoj Žižek, from Eva Illouz to Byung Chul Han Through Jacques Lacan, Liv Strömquist develops a subtle critique of our contemporary obsession with well-being and personal development, while addressing broader existential questions, such as meaning ultimate of life or how to deal with the evidence that we are all going dying: a self-help comic against development staff.