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Byung-Chul Han becoming famous is hilarious and tragic - the very things he decries in his books are eating him up and consuming his ideas and even if he has nothing to do with it, he can't stop it from happening
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Today’s terror of short-termism — which, with fatal consequences, we mistake for freedom — destroys the practices that require time.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is anti-social, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
stabilizing anchors of ritual
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
the quick succession of bits of content displayed on a smartphone makes any lingering impossible.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
“The aesthetic is colonized by the economic.”
Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
contemporary compulsion to produce robs things of their endurance [Haltbarkeit]: it intentionally erodes duration in order to increase production, to force more consumption.