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In the Swarm: Digital Prospects by Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations
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 arg ...Show more
Psychopolitics Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Non-Fiction
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-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 productiv ...Show more
Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Non-Fiction
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 o ...Show more
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Philippa (TRN) Byung-Chul; Hurd Han
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations
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 cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Sams ...Show more
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations
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 re ...Show more
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Philosophy
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 shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Wher ...Show more
Topology of Violence by Byung-Chul Han; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
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 disappear--violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constella ...Show more
What Is Power? by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Non-Fiction
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life.Power is co ...Show more
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