Byung-Chul Han is the author of more than 20 books including The Burnout Society, Saving Beauty and The Scent of Time.

“an entertaining polemic … animated by a Cassandra sensibility that expects warnings to go unheeded.”Stuart Jeffries, The Observer“Powerful.”Matthew Gasda, First Things“[Han] is a serious and committed writer, relentless in his disdain for the way social media platforms and algorithms have disrupted our personal, political, and spiritual lives.”ArtAsiaPacific“A valuable confrontation with the question of what ‘narrative’ actually is … thoughtful and generative.”The Conversation“Like a Sartre for the age of screens, Han puts words to our prevailing condition of not-quite-hopeless digital despair.”The New Yorker“A nicely packaged, interesting and thought-provoking meditation.”Complete Review“Byung-Chul Han stands in the tradition of Jacques Ellul and Christopher Lasch … Reading any one of their books will result in never seeing things the same again.”Russell Moore, Christianity Today“Han’s enquiries into the different regions of contemporary experience, including work, time, love and art, yield a remarkably consistent project of thought, a relentless critique of the spiritual and political privations of digital capitalism.”Joshua Cohen, Aeon

• PrefaceFrom Narration to InformationThe Poverty of ExperienceThe Narrated LifeBare LifeThe Disenchantment of the WorldFrom Shocks to LikesTheory as NarrativeNarration as HealingNarrative CommunityStorysellingNotes

Byung-Chul Han is the author of more than 20 books including The Burnout Society, Saving Beauty and The Scent of Time.

“an entertaining polemic … animated by a Cassandra sensibility that expects warnings to go unheeded.”Stuart Jeffries, The Observer“Powerful.”Matthew Gasda, First Things“[Han] is a serious and committed writer, relentless in his disdain for the way social media platforms and algorithms have disrupted our personal, political, and spiritual lives.”ArtAsiaPacific“A valuable confrontation with the question of what ‘narrative’ actually is … thoughtful and generative.”The Conversation“Like a Sartre for the age of screens, Han puts words to our prevailing condition of not-quite-hopeless digital despair.”The New Yorker“A nicely packaged, interesting and thought-provoking meditation.”Complete Review“Byung-Chul Han stands in the tradition of Jacques Ellul and Christopher Lasch … Reading any one of their books will result in never seeing things the same again.”Russell Moore, Christianity Today“Han’s enquiries into the different regions of contemporary experience, including work, time, love and art, yield a remarkably consistent project of thought, a relentless critique of the spiritual and political privations of digital capitalism.”Joshua Cohen, Aeon

• PrefaceFrom Narration to InformationThe Poverty of ExperienceThe Narrated LifeBare LifeThe Disenchantment of the WorldFrom Shocks to LikesTheory as NarrativeNarration as HealingNarrative CommunityStorysellingNotes