The Digital Exhaustion blog was developed after observing the impact of the mass adoption of digital ‘solutions’ throughout the social field during the COVID-19 pandemic. The blog is edited and curated by cultural critics working across disciplines and institutions. We welcome pitches for short posts (400–1000 words) that explore our techno-saturated moment. ‘Exhaustion’ is offered as a broad and versatile conceptual prism for thinking through human-technology relations in the current climate of digital overload: the fatigue arising from Zoom calls; the ‘burnout’ that comes from social media overuse; the weariness of managing overflowing email inboxes; the ‘exhaust’ produced by carbon-fuelled data centres as internet ‘traffic’ surges; the exhaustion of planetary resources generated by the accelerating demand for digital products and services; the exhaustive efforts of tech corporations to extract data from every inch of our daily lives.