Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”

Yet one of art’s most compelling features is how it showcases the disjuncts between the time of composition, the time of dissemination, and the time of consideration—disjuncts that can summon us to humility and wonder. Such temporal amplitude understandably falls out of favor in politically polarized times, in which the pressure to make clear “whic

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Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more

People can only reach us through the post, and we’ve gotten thousands of printed letters from people, who express a lot of appreciation for us, simply saying that things of value must exist offline.

If the prevailing sentiment is that everything should be mediated, not just by screens and apps, but by these massive corporations that are surveilling ... See more

The present essay is not animated by a desire to return to ritual. Rather, rituals serve as a background against which our present times may be seen to stand out more clearly. Avoiding nostalgia, I sketch a genealogy of their disappearance, a disappearance which, however, I do not interpret as an emancipatory process. Along the way, the pathologies

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