Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues that they lead to burnout and self-absorption and ...
I Saw the Devil
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Kim Jee-Woon directs this brutally visceral Korean revenge thriller. When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of maniacal serial killer Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), secret agent Dae-hoon (Byung-hun Lee) takes the law into his own hands and sets out on a merciless, bloodthirsty mission to make Kyung-chul's existence a living hell.Typ: DVD
I Saw the Devil
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Kim Jee-Woon directs this brutally visceral Korean revenge thriller. When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of maniacal serial killer Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), secret agent Dae-hoon (Byung-hun Lee) takes the law into his own hands and sets out on a merciless, bloodthirsty mission to make Kyung-chul's existence a living hell.Typ: Blu-ray
Good Entertainment
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 ...
Psychopolitics
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 ...
Eros agoni
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...
Psychopolitics
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...
Palliativsamhället - Smärta Idag
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 viruset är livet mer än någonsin en överlevnad. Överlevnadshysterin förvärras viralt. Viruset är vårt samhälles spegel.BYUNG-CHUL HAN, född 1959 i Seoul, Sydkorea, är verksam i Tyskland som kultur-teoretiker och professor vid Universität der Künste i Berlin. Han har kallats »den digitala tidsålderns filosof« och har skrivit en rad uppmärksammade böcker om den kulturella norm som de nyliberala marknadskrafterna ger upphov till. Hans första bok på svenska, Trötthetssamhället, väckte stor genklang när den utkom 2013. Om Trötthetssamhället: »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
Scent of Time
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 ...
Scent of Time
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...
Scent of Time
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...
Agony of Eros
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...
What is Power?
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 ...
In Praise of the Earth
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 ...
Korean in Plain English, Second Edition
Next time someone asks if you speak Korean, you can say Chugum hal chul amnida (Choe-guum hahl chuul ahm-nee-dah).* With Korean in Plain English , you can speak Korean in no time! Its easy-to-use pronunciation system and straightforwa...
In the Swarm
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....
Shanzhai
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 ...
Topology of Violence
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, v...
Hyperculture
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 f...
Non-things
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 expan...
Disappearance of Rituals
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...
Saving Beauty
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 ...
Saving Beauty
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 ...
Palliativgesellschaft
Palliativgesellschaft
Espiritu de la Esperanza, El
Espiritu de la Esperanza, El
Spirit of Hope
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...
Vita Contemplativa
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 ...
Crisis of Narration
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...
Absence
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...
Palliative Society
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 give...
Infocracy
The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics.¿ Election campaigns are now being waged as informat...
Capitalism and the Death Drive
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...
Kapitalismus und Todestrieb
Kapitalismus und Todestrieb
Expulsion of the Other
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 eve...