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Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and...

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A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anx...

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Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Ea...

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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the ...

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»Trötthetssamhället« är inte ännu en självhjälpsbok, utan en filosofisk essä som rekommenderar ledans och vredens terapi. Det moderna informations- och prestationssamhället med sina oändliga lockelser och möjligheter betraktas vanligtvis som ett f...

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We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things a constantly expandi...

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Den senkapitalistiska epokens extrema narcissism har förändrat våra liv i grunden, hävdar den sydkoreanske filosofen Byung-Chul Han. Det offentliga rummet domineras av bilder som uppmuntrar till sexuellt begär, samtidigt som våra privata beteenden...

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Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat i...

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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no lon...

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In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more pe...

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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an ...

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An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes M...

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I vår tid råder överallt en generell rädsla för smärta, menar den koreanske filosofen Byung-Chul Han. Varje smärtsamt tillstånd undviks medvetet och smärttoleransen minskar snabbt. Hälsan har blivit det allt överordnade värdet. I kriget mot viruse...

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Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahyna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so eni...

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Det moderna informations- och prestationssamhället med sina oändliga lockelser och möjligheter betraktas vanligtvis som ett framsteg. Men enligt den koreanske filosofen Byung-Chul Han, som skriver på tyska och är verksam i Karlsruhe, är det snarar...

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EIN PLÄDOYER¿GEGEN DAS KLIMA DER ANGST Angstvoll blicken wir in eine düstere Zukunft. Überall fehlt es an Hoffnung. Und das Leben verkümmert zum Überleben. Dagegen beschwört Byung-Chul Han mit¿aller Kraft den Geist der Hoffnung. Illustriert ist da...

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Den digitala revolutionen innebär ett lika djupgående och omvälvande paradigmskifte som en gång boktryckarkonsten. Tekniken förändrar snabbt vår varseblivning, vårt tänkande och våra umgänges¿former i grunden. I sin nya bok reflekterar den koreans...

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Det moderna informations- och prestationssamhället med sina oändliga lockelser och möjligheter betraktas vanligtvis som ett framsteg. Men enligt den koreanske filosofen Byung-Chul Han, som skriver på tyska och är verksam i Karlsruhe, är det snarar...

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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psych...

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Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "e;user-friendly"e; technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from d...

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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given ...

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Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means fake, originally coined to describe knock-off ce...

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Derzeit vollzieht sich unbemerkt ein Paradigmenwechsel. Die Gesellschaft der Negativität weicht einer Gesellschaft, die von einem Übermaß an Positivität beherrscht ist. Ausgehend von diesem Paradigmenwechsel zeichnet Han die pathologische Landscha...

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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappearviolence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protea...

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A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing varietyinfotainment, edutainment, servotainmentand traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the no...

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Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. A...

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An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Ma...

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