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Pages: 68
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Publication Date: August 12,2015
Category: Phenomenology
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are going for a toll about the late-contemporary individual. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to control negative experiences in a day and time characterized by extreme positivity and the common option of people and products. Rather than improving lifestyle, multitasking, “user-friendly” technology, and the culture of comfort are making disorders that range between depression to interest deficit disorder to borderline character disorder. Tension and exhaustion aren’t just personal encounters, but social and traditional phenomena aswell. Denouncing a world where every against-the-grain response can result in further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and organic sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for continuous neural connection.