Télécharger le livre :  Infocracy
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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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Hyperculture
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In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the familiar and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-01-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Palliative Society
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalism and the Death Drive
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Disappearance of Rituals
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Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Power?
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Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Expulsion of the Other
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The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Saving Beauty
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Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Scent of Time
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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time.  Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-25

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