Capitalism and the Death Drive

Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He is the author of more than twenty books including The Scent of Time, Saving Beauty and The Burnout Society.

"These incisive and often disturbing meditations take the reader to the dark heart of contemporary neoliberalism, in which ubiquitous surveillance and the quest for personal gratification eventually threaten human vitality itself."—William Davies, Author of Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World"Han astutely has his finger on the pulse of the madness and nihilistic inanity of capital."—Canadian Dimension

• Acknowledgements vii Capitalism and the Death Drive 1Why Revolution Is Impossible Today 15The Total Exploitation of the Human Being 21Inside the Digital Panopticon 27Only What Is Dead Is Transparent 33Dataism and Nihilism 40Torturous Emptiness 43Jumping Humans 49Where Do the Refugees Come From? 53Where the Wild Things Are 57Who Is a Refugee? 64Beauty Lies Yonder, in the Foreign 69The Big Rush 75In Your Face 79The End of Liberalism 85