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Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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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 snarare fråga om en tillbakagång. Det ständiga tvånget att veta allt och kunna allt leder till en kollektiv utmattning. I boken beskriver han detta fenomen och ett sätt att lösa problemet. »Trötthetssamhället« är inte ännu en självhjälpsbok, utan en filosofisk essä som rekommenderar ledans och vredens terapi.
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Häftad, Svenska, 2026
218 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
171 kr
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Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
209 kr
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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 performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life.For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity constitutes the human. Without moments of pause or hesitation, acting deteriorates into blind action and reaction. When life follows the rule of stimulus–response and need–satisfaction, it atrophies into pure survival: naked biological life. If we lose the ability to be inactive, we begin to resemble machines that simply function. True life begins when concern for survival, for the exigencies of mere life, ends. The ultimate purpose of all human endeavour is inactivity.In a beautifully crafted ode to the art of being still, Han shows that the current crisis in our society calls for a very different way of life: one based on the vita contemplative. He pleads for bringing our ceaseless activities to a stop and making room for the magic that happens in between. Life receives its radiance only from inactivity.Also available as an audiobook.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
209 kr
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 narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience.The inflation of storytelling betrays a need to cope with contingency, but storytelling is unable to transform the information society back into a stable narrative community. Rather, storytelling as storyselling is a pathological phenomenon of our age. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
184 kr
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 in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past, Han provides a genealogy of their disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feelings and leaves individuals exposed to exploitation and manipulation by neoliberal psycho-politics. The community that is invoked everywhere today is an atrophied and commoditized community that lacks the symbolic power to bind people together. For Han, it is only the mutual praxis of recognition borne by the ritualistic sharing of the symbolic between members of a community which creates the footholds of objectivity allowing us to make sense of time. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
142 kr
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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 psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
147 kr
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In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in the form of fundamental concepts. He also explained that his thinking is rooted in German Romanticism and Far Eastern thought: 'If I may compare my thinking with a fruit, then its skin and flesh are deeply romantic. The seed, in contrast, is Far Eastern.'In the three lectures that make up this book, Han invites readers into his world, discusses some of the artists and thinkers who have shaped his thinking, and explores some of the central preoccupations of his work. 'If asked to summarize my philosophical thoughts in one sentence, I would say: The Other disappears.' The more we immerse ourselves in digital communication, the more we lose the sense of touch and the physical presence of the Other. We become entangled in our own egos and become more and more depressed. We live in a society that is becoming increasingly narcissistic, in which individuals are turned in on themselves, incapable of relating to the Other in the way that Eros, as distinct from sex, requires.Wide ranging in scope and conversational in style, these lectures are an ideal introduction to one of the most influential philosophers and cultural theorists writing today.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
169 kr
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Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster.This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media.Also available as an audiobook.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
152 kr
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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 Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the “inferno of the same.” Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources—Lars von Trier's film Melancholia, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde,Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the “pornographication” of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today's “burnout society.” To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself. Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, The Agony of Eros is an important and provocative entry in Han's ongoing analysis of contemporary society.This remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day: the defense, that is to say—as Rimbaud desired it—the “reinvention” of love.—from the foreword by Alain Badiou
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
184 kr
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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 Eastern thinking is not being but ‘the way’ (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. ‘A Zen monk should be without fixed abode, like the clouds, and without fixed support, like water’, said the Japanese Zen master Dōgen.Drawing on this fundamental distinction between essence and absence, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of absence that may at first sight appear strange and unfamiliar to those in the West whose ways of thinking have been shaped for centuries by the preoccupation with essence.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
183 kr
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. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything—and everyone—has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. Yet, transparency has a dark side that, ironically, has everything to do with a lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. Behind the apparent accessibility of knowledge lies the disappearance of privacy, homogenization, and the collapse of trust. The anxiety to accumulate ever more information does not necessarily produce more knowledge or faith. Technology creates the illusion of total containment and the constant monitoring of information, but what we lack is adequate interpretation of the information. In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest and most pernicious of our contemporary mythologies.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
192 kr
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. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes. Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities. It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life. It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come. It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning. Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future.In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world.Also available as an audiobook
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
209 kr
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahâyâna 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 enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's hostility towards theory and discourse, it is possible to reflect philosophically on Zen Buddhism and bring out its philosophical insights.In this short book, Byung-Chul Han seeks to unfold the philosophical force inherent in Zen Buddhism, delving into the foundations of Far Eastern thought to which Zen Buddhism is indebted. Han does this comparatively by confronting and contrasting the insights of Zen Buddhism with the philosophies of Plato, Leibniz, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger and others, showing that Zen Buddhism and Western philosophy have very different ways of understanding religion, subjectivity, emptiness, friendliness and death.This important work by one of the most widely read philosophers and cultural theorists of our time will be of great value to anyone interested in comparative philosophy and religion.Also available as an audiobook.
E-bok
Spanska, 2024113 kr
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De la desesperación más profunda nace también la esperanza más íntima. La esperanza nos lanza hacia lo desconocido, nos pone camino de lo nuevo, de lo que jamás ha existido.Guerras, migraciones masivas, atentados, catástrofes climáticas, crisis y pandemias: escenarios apocalípticos muy diversos nos confrontan con una inminente amenaza de hundimiento y extinción. Y mientras vamos de catástrofe en catástrofe, nuestra verdadera vida se asfixia y se ve reducida a una pura supervivencia. Sin embargo, la esperanza nos abre tiempos futuros y espacios inéditos, en los que entramos soñando. Es toda una manera de existir, que no resulta de hechos dados, sino que posibilita nuevos acontecimientos precisamente cuando más imposibles parecerían.Tras sus famosos ensayos de crítica negativa del régimen neoliberal, en esta nueva y novedosa obra el célebre filósofo Byung-Chul Han emprende no ya un viraje, sino una verdadera superación hacia una alentadora visión del hombre. En el espíritu humano anida la capacidad de hacer fecundo lo más yermo. Precisamente en los escenarios más desoladores el espíritu es capaz de remover ese viento que nos trae aires de esperanza.Ilustran este libro obras de Anselm Kiefer, uno de los artistas contemporáneos de mayor prestigio. Una afinidad intelectual une al artísta y al filósofo, que escogieron juntos las obras aquí presentadasEste no es solo un libro «sobre» la esperanza: es también un libro «de» esperanza.
E-bok
Spanska, 202291 kr
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Lo que hoy llamamos «crecimiento» es en realidad la consecuencia de un aumento excesivo de carcinomas que destruyen el organismo social. Estos tumores metastatizan sin cesar y se multiplican con una vitalidad inexplicable y mortal. En cierto momento, este crecimiento ya no es productivo, sino destructivo.El capitalismo ha sobrepasado hace mucho tiempo este punto crítico. Sus poderes destructivos producen catástrofes no solo ecológicas o sociales, sino también mentales. Los efectos devastadores del capitalismo sugieren la existencia de un instinto de muerte. Freud, inicialmente, introdujo la noción de «pulsión de muerte» con vacilación, pero luego admitió que «no podía pensar más allá» a medida que la idea se volvía cada vez más central en su pensamiento.Hoy es imposible refl exionar sobre el capitalismo sin considerar la pulsión de muerte. Este libro reúne 14 artículos y 2 conversaciones de Byung-Chul Han acerca de la expansión del capitalismo y sus consecuencias.
E-bok
Spanska, 202491 kr
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«La sociedad del cansancio» puede considerarse una de las obras más emblemáticas de Byung-Chul Han. En ella, con una visión casi profética, se presentan los grandes temas que el filósofo surcoreano desarrollaría luego durante más de una década, alcanzando celebridad mundial. En conmemoración de toda esa trayectoria filosófica, y por su rotunda actualidad, volvemos a presentar ahora esta obra en una nueva traducción.Byung-Chul Han detecta que en las últimas décadas se ha producido en nuestras sociedades occidentales avanzadas un cambio de paradigma y que la anterior sociedad disciplinaria --basada en imperativos y prohibiciones externos-- ha pasado a ser una sociedad del rendimiento, en la que los individuos se afanan por explotarse a sí mismos. Si antiguamente el quebrantamiento de la norma acarreaba el castigo, ahora el incumplimiento del anhelo provoca frustración.Cifrar la plenitud personal y el sentido de la vida en la incesante autoexigencia de rendir cada vez más conlleva como resultados culturales la nivelación de todas las diferencias, el infierno de lo igual y la pura positividad. Como consecuencias psicológicas acarrea cansancio, aburrimiento e indiferencia y como secuelas psiquiátricas ocasiona diversos síndromes: de hiperactividad, impaciencia, desatención y agotamiento. De este modo, el precio vital exige la renuncia al ánimo festivo, a la pura celebración de la vida.
E-bok
Spanska, 201479 kr
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El filósofo Byung-Chul Han dirige ahora su mirada crítica hacia las nuevas técnicas de poder del capitalismo neoliberal, que dan acceso a la esfera de la psique, convirtiéndola en su mayor fuerza de producción. La psicopolítica es, según Han, aquel sistema de dominación que, en lugar de emplear el poder opresor, utiliza un poder seductor, inteligente (smart), que consigue que los hombres se sometan por sí mismos al entramado de dominación.En este sistema, el sujeto sometido no es consciente de su sometimiento. La eficacia del psicopoder radica en que el individuo se cree libre, cuando en realidad es el sistema el que está explotando su libertad. La psicopolítica se sirve del Big Data el cual, como un Big Brother digital, se apodera de los datos que los individuos le entregan de forma efusiva y voluntaria. Esta herramienta permite hacer pronósticos sobre el comportamiento de las personas y condicionarlas a un nivel prerreflexivo.La expresión libre y la hipercomunicación que se difunden por la red se convierten en control y vigilancia totales, conduciendo a una auténtica crisis de la libertad.Según Byung-Chul Han, este poder inteligente podría detectar incluso patrones de comportamiento del inconsciente colectivo que otorgarían a la psicopolítica un control ilimitado. Nuestro futuro dependerá de que seamos capaces de servirnos de lo inservible, de la singularidad no cuantificable y de la idiotez -dice incluso- de quien no participa ni comparte.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
215 kr
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.Gardening taught him what care for others means. Each organism has its own consciousness of time passing; each organism lives in its own micro-universe. Step by step, Han receded from himself and the world, moving closer and closer to an exuberant, divine nature which we are increasingly in danger of losing.Through this rich meditation on plants, soil, gardening, and time, Han unfolds a way of relating to and tending the earth that is in sharp contrast to the brutal, incessant exploitation of our planet that we see all around us today.Also available as an audiobook.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
188 kr
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In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the familiar and the exotic. Heterogeneous cultural contents are brought together side by side, like the fusion food that makes free use of all that the hypercultural pool of spices, ingredients and ways of preparing food has to offer. Culture is becoming un-bound, un-restricted, un-ravelled: a hyperculture. It is a profoundly rhizomatic culture of intense hybridization, fusion and co-appropriation. Today we have all become hypercultural tourists, even in our 'own' culture, to which we do not even belong anymore. Hypercultural tourists travel in the hyperspace of events, a space of cultural sightseeing. They experience culture as cul-tour.Drawing on thinkers from Hegel and Heidegger to Bauman and Homi Bhabha to examine the characteristics of our contemporary hyperculture, Han poses the question: should we welcome the human of the future as the hypercultural tourist, smiling serenely, or should we aspire to a different way of being in the world?
Häftad, Spanska, 2024
186 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
159 kr
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The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.
E-bok
Svenska, 202399 kr
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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 snarare fråga om en tillbakagång. Det ständiga tvånget att veta allt och kunna allt leder till en kollektiv utmattning. I boken beskriver han detta fenomen och ett sätt att lösa problemet.
»Trötthetssamhället« är inte ännu en självhjälpsbok, utan en filosofisk essä som rekommenderar ledans och vredens terapi.
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»[Trötthetssamhället] analyserar vår tidsålders sjukliga prestationsmaskineri, tvånget att kunna och veta allt. Att koppla ned uppkopplingen är dock banala råd. Enligt Byung-Chul finns bara en sak som kan rädda dagens människa från själsinfarkt total tristess, rena j-a ledan! Tja, varför inte, det låter plötsligt som ett lockande alternativ.« Arbetarbladets kulturlista
»Byung-Chuls blick för samhällsskeenden och existensens grundfrågor bevisar dessutom att filosofin angår oss, och med oss menar jag oss allihop. Filosofin är inte sig själv nog. Den pågår i den värld där varenda en av oss lever.« Maria Küchen, Sydsvenskan
»Filosofisk pärla av koreanen Byung-Chul Han, bosatt i Berlin, som skriver kritiskt om det ständigt uppkopplade samhället. Ett måste för mobilmatta människor.« Karin Olsson, Expressen
»Trots det lilla formatet är det en tungt vägande bok som fokuserar på det paradigmskifte som författaren menar att vi är mitt uppe i Trötthetssamhället borde vara obligatorisk helgläsning för halvgamla och vuxna. Om man har överseende med den ibland något snåriga filosofiska begreppsapparaten är det en skrift som belönar en rikligt. Koppla ner och koppla av med en stunds begrundande läsning.« Tomas Lidbeck, Ystads Allehanda
»... det är en sådan där kort liten skrift som du kan bläddra igenom på en timme och sedan fundera över i veckor.« Björn Waller, Dagens bok
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
212 kr
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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 imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling.Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.Also available as an audiobook
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
209 kr
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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 expanding "infosphere" of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han's critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too, and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world.This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.Also available as an audiobook.
Del 18356 - Reclam Universal-Bibliothek
Was ist Macht?
Häftad, Tyska
94 kr
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Del 9 - Untimely Meditations
Topology of Violence
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
209 kr
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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.
Del 3 - Untimely Meditations
In the Swarm
Digital Prospects
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
152 kr
A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.—from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arguing that digital communication is in fact responsible for the disintegration of community and public space and is slowly eroding any possibility for real political action and meaningful political discourse. In the predigital, analog era, by the time an angry letter to the editor had been composed, mailed, and received, the immediate agitation had passed. Today, digital communication enables instantaneous, impulsive reaction, meant to express and stir up outrage on the spot. “The shitstorm,” writes Han, ”represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.”Meanwhile, the public, the senders and receivers of these communications have become a digital swarm—not a mass, or a crowd, or Negri and Hardt's antiquated notion of a “multitude,” but a set of isolated individuals incapable of forming a “we,” incapable of calling dominant power relations into question, incapable of formulating a future because of an obsession with the present. The digital swarm is a fragmented entity that can focus on individual persons only in order to make them an object of scandal. Han, one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, describes a society in which information has overrun thought, in which the same algorithms are employed by Facebook, the stock market, and the intelligence services. Democracy is under threat because digital communication has made freedom and control indistinguishable. Big Brother has been succeeded by Big Data.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
210 kr
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»Han mixar in Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin och Martin Heidegger i sina analyser av selfies och Snapchat, och gör tysk filosofi till ett nutida beat för tanken att dansa till.« Kristofer Ahlström, DN
Storytelling står högt i kurs i dag. Så högt att man kan få intrycket att vi återigen berättar fler historier för varandra. I själva verket innebär storytelling allt annat än berättelsens återkomst. Det handlar snarare om att instrumentalisera och kommersialisera berättelser. Det har etablerats som en effektiv kommunikationsteknik, som inte sällan tjänar manipulativa syften. Det handlar alltid om den enda frågan: »How to use storytelling?« Den som tror att produktchefer som fördjupar sig i storytelling utgör en ny berättelses avantgarde misstar sig.
»Att leva är att berätta. Människan som animal narrans skiljer sig från djuren i det att hon förverkligar nya livsformer när hon berättar. Berättelsen bär på kraften till en ny början. Varje världsförändrande handling förutsätter en berättelse. Storytelling däremot känner bara till en enda livsform, nämligen den konsumistiska. Storytelling som storyselling är inkapabel att föreställa sig helt andra livsformer. I storytellingens värld reduceras allt till konsumtion. Därigenom blir vi blinda för andra berättelser, för andra livsformer, för andra varseblivningar och verkligheter. Detta är narrationens kris i storytellingens tidsålder.« ur Narrationens kris
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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 Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today''s society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today''s increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the “inferno of the same.”
Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources—Lars von Trier''s film Melancholia, Wagner''s Tristan und Isolde,Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault''s valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the “pornographication” of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism''s leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today''s “burnout society.” To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself.
Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, The Agony of Eros is an important and provocative entry in Han''s ongoing analysis of contemporary society.
This remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day: the defense, that is to say—as Rimbaud desired it—the “reinvention” of love.—from the foreword by Alain Badiou