博客來Many things in modern life no longer end.
Accounts remain open but inactive. Roles fade without formal termination. Projects stall instead of concluding. Relationships go quiet rather than closing. Systems leave things technically alive but functionally abandoned.
In The Age of Quiet Cancellation, Thomas Elric examines how non-termination became a dominant structural behavior. He shows why explicit endings are increasingly avoided, how silence replaces closure, and why unresolved states quietly accumulate across platforms, institutions, work, and everyday life.
This book explains why cancellation has shifted from an event to a condition. Ending things now carries reputational, legal, and emotional cost. Allowing them to linger preserves optionality and diffuses responsibility. As a result, systems increasingly prefer ambiguity over decision, even when clarity would be healthier.
This is not a guide to setting boundaries or cutting ties. It offers no advice and no prescriptions. It explains why so many things never fully end, and what it means to live inside a world that remains perpetually unfinished.
