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South Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has developed a useful approach to think about different ways of spending and thinking about time online. Han outlines 3 distinct understandings of time: mythical time, historical time and atomised time.

Mythical time

For Han, mythical time is a time that is full of meaning that transcends the present m... See more

Stripe Partners • This month's Frame: Byung–Chul Han on how meaning makes time less fleeting

What’s puzzling, given how carefully people toe their respective party lines, is that there is no minister of propaganda nor a ministry of truth enforcing any explicit stances. We expect this degree of ideological conformity to be the product of a centralized power handing out punishments and rewards. But, as far as I know, there is no single autho... See more

Jonathan Bi • Johnathan at Limbo — 404

Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —

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And yet most of the time, for Heidegger, we fail dismally at this task. We merely surrender to a socialised, superficial mode of being what he called ‘they-self’ (as opposed to ‘our-selves’). We follow das Gerede (The Chatter), which we hear about in the newspapers, on TV and in the large cities Heidegger hated to spend time in.

The School of Life Press • Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library)

human condition

Jakob Greenfeld • 5 cards

The first is the never-ending defense of capitalism and its empty “freedoms,” undermined as they are by the sterile neutrality of market determination alone.

Alain Badiou • The True Life

Being regarded as authentic is a function of others’ evaluation of your performance. But if everything is in upheaval, then those others doing the evaluating have few points of reference. Because the network society is global in character, identity is constantly being contested and threatened from all sides. The freedom of the paranoid, just like t

David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

Philosophy

Devin Baker • 8 cards

The positivation of the world allows new forms of violence to emerge. They do not stem from the immunologically Other. Rather, they are immanent in the system itself.