A work of profound clarity, The Proxy Condition examines what it means to remain whole in a world where the self is no longer singular. Through original frameworks and a voice of precise authority, Harrison Rose Tate traces the architecture of our digital duality and offers a path toward coherence inside it.

This is not a book about distraction. It is a book about presence, and what is lost when attention becomes ambient, reactive, and performative. In this world, you are expected to live two lives at once. One is physical. One is digital. Both are public. Both are real. One is exhausted. The other is always awake.

Tate invites readers to stop outsourcing their interiority to algorithms and noise, and instead to design a self that holds across contexts. The result is not a guidebook. It is a reckoning. One that exposes our fractured attention, reclaimed thought, and buried instinct, not to criticize, but to restore.

Part modern philosophy, part psychological architecture, The Proxy Condition stands alone in its form and intent. At once structural and intimate, it is a meditation on identity, perception, and the quiet integrity required to live well with two selves.