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Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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
What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays
Samantha Rose Hillaeon.coInsights from Byung-Chul Han:
The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds
We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives
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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
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