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«Non glorifico il dolore, tuttavia senza di esso la nostra esistenza sarebbe incompleta». Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diffusa da spingerci a rinunciare persino alla libertà pur di non doverlo affrontare. Il rischio, secondo Han, è chiuderci in una rassicurante finta sicurezza che si trasforma in una gabbia, perché è...

Narratives create bonds. From them is born what connects and links us. In this way, they found communities and save us from contingency. However, today, when everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling has become a commercial weapon that transforms storytelling into another tool of capitalism, propagating amid the disorientation and lack of meaning characteristic of the information society. Storytelling and information are opposin...

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 shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community - the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recr...

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 shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community - the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recr...

The polished, the smooth, the impeccable, are the hallmark of our time. They are what Jeff Koons sculptures, smartphones and waxing have in common. These qualities highlight the current "excess of positivity" that Han speaks of in other essays, but that he focuses on and develops here in the field of art and aesthetics. Why do you like "polished" so much today? Because it does not damage, it offers no resistance. The digital beauty constitutes...

Angstvoll blicken wir in eine düstere Zukunft. Überall fehlt es an Hoffnung. Und das Leben verkümmert zum Überleben. Dagegen beschwört der Philosoph Byung-Chul Han mit aller Kraft den Geist der Hoffnung. Seit geraumer Zeit werden wir permanent mit apokalyptischen Szenarien konfrontiert: Pandemie, Weltkrieg und Klimakatastrophe. Der Weltuntergang oder das Ende der menschlichen Zivilisation wird heraufbeschworen. Angst und Ressentiments aber ...

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 performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life. For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity...

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 performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life. For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity...

Es gibt Dinge, die nicht verschwinden. Zu ihnen gehört auch die Gewalt. Die »Gewaltaversion« (Jan Phillip Reemtsma) zeichnet nicht die Moderne aus. Die Gewalt ist proteischer als man denkt. Sie verändert nur ihre Erscheinungsform. Heute zieht sie sich in subkutane, subkommunikative, kapillare und neuronale Räume zurück und nimmt eine mikrophysische Form an, die auch ohne die Negativität der Herrschaft oder Feindschaft ausgeübt wird. Sie verlag...

Erzählungen bringen das Bindende, das Verbindende und das Verbindliche hervor. Dadurch stiften sie Gemeinschaft und beseitigen Kontingenz. Doch gerade da, wo alles wie heute so beliebig und zufällig geworden ist, das heißt mitten im Kontingenzsturm der Informationsgesellschaft, meldet sich das Storytelling laut zu Wort und lässt zirkulierende Narrative selbst als kontingent erscheinen. Das Storytelling breitet sich aus inmitten einer großen D...

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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 Eastern thinking is not being but 'the way' (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwellin...

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 Eastern thinking is not being but 'the way' (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwellin...

Ein inspirierender Gegenentwurf zu Hannah Arendts Vita activa oder vom tätigen Leben Die Fähigkeit zur Untätigkeit kommt uns gänzlich abhanden. Dabei ist Untätigkeit keine Negation, keine Verweigerung, keine bloße Abwesenheit von Tätigkeit, sondern ein eigenständiges Vermögen. Byung-Chul Han spürt dem Reichtum, der Pracht und der Magie der Untätigkeit nach und entwirft eine neue Lebensform.

Zen Buddhism is a form of Mah y na Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's hostility towards theory and discourse, it is possible to reflect philosophically on Zen Buddhism and bring out its philosophical insights. In this s...

Zen Buddhism is a form of Mah y na Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's hostility towards theory and discourse, it is possible to reflect philosophically on Zen Buddhism and bring out its philosophical insights. In this s...

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 information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy. In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary informa...