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…
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 every…
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 Mark…
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…
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 b…
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.…
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 a…
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…
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. Any…
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 im…
Shanzhai är ett vanligt kinesiskt ord för ”fejk”, men till skillnad från motsvarande begrepp hos oss saknar det helt negativa konnotationer. Det förknippas snarare med nihilistisk kreativitet och en viss rebellisk, kättersk påhittighet.…
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, vary…
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…
A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety-infotainment, edutainment, servotainment-and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the not…
„Neoliberalismen er kapitalismen af likes. Den adskiller sig principielt fra det 19. århundredes kapitalisme, der arbejdede med disciplinær tvang og forbud. Den smarte magt læser og vurderer vores bevidste og ubevidste tanker. Den satser på fr…
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 c…
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 th…
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 longe…
Die Veränderungen, die der kulturelle Globalisierungsprozess bewirkt, erfordern einen neuen Kulturbegriff. Zunehmend lösen sich die kulturellen Ausdrucksformen aus ihrem ursprünglichen Ort und zirkulieren in einem globalen Hyperraum d…
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…
Den digitala revolutionen innebär ett lika djupgående och omvälvande paradigmskifte som en gång boktryckarkonsten. Tekniken förändrar snabbt vår varseblivning, vårt tänkande och våra umgängesformer i grunden. I sin nya bok reflekterar den koreanske…
I sværmen. Tanker om det digitale er en kulturkritisk, antropologisk tekstsamling om det digitale medium, disintegration af fællesskaber og politisk lammelse. Den tyske filosof Byung-Chul Han tegner stridslystent et panorama over det digitaliserede…
Den tyske filosof Byung-Chul Han hudfletter i ny bog den samfundsorden, han kalder transparenssamfundet. Nutidens avancerede teknologi skaber en illusion om grænseløse mængder af information og fuldkommen oplysning, og begrebet transparens er ble…
"Ein Land, wo einer, der ?ich? sagt, schleunig in die Erde versinkt. (Elias Canetti) Im Westen war das Fremde lange Zeit Gegenstand gewaltsamer Aus?schließung oder Vereinnahmung. Es war nicht präsent im Inneren des Eige?nen. Und heute? Gi…
