50 phrases by Byung Chul Han

Byung Chul's phrases are conducive to reflecting on today's society.

For this South Korean philosopher, born in 1959, and experts in cultural issues, the man today explies himself and believes that he is being carried out.

That is why Byung Chul's phrases have opened a door towards the debate of what is happening today.

Next, we will share some phrases by Byung Chul Han, who through different interviews and essays has revealed the way he thinks about the present and the future.

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Among the most outstanding phrases of Byung Chul are the following:

The transparency society is hell of the same.

The 'fundamental tiredness' suspends egological isolation and founds a community that does not need kinship.

Transparency and truth are not identical.

The imperative of transparency makes everything that does not undergo visibility suspicious. That is what your violence consists.

In exposed society, each subject is their own object of advertising. Everything is measured in its exposure value.

The recent social developments and the structural change of vigil are leading human society more and more deeply in the desert.

Capitalism acute the process ... aspires to maximize the exposure value.

Depression is the disease of a society that suffers from excessive positivity. Reflects a humanity by freeing a war on itself.

The transparency society eliminates all rituals and ceremonies, in that these cannot be done operational, because they are an impediment to the acceleration of information, communication and production cycles.

The 21st century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but a society of achievements.

The dialing dweller is a victim and actor at the same time. There is the dialectic of freedom, which becomes evident as control.

Its inhabitants are no longer subjects of obedience, but 'subjects of achievement'. They are self -employers.

The concern for the good life, which also includes life as a member of the community, is increasingly giving up the simple concern for survival.

It is not imperative only to belong to oneself, but the pressure to achieve that causes an exhaustive depression.

Achievement society creates depressive and losers.

Today's society, obsessed with cleanliness and hygiene, is a positivity society that feels disgust in any type of negativity. Hygienic compulsion takes over other areas also. Everywhere, prohibitions are announced in the name of hygiene.

The immune paradigm is incompatible with the globalization process.

The history of violence culminates in this fusion of victim and perpetrator, of master and slave, of freedom and violence.

The depressed individual is unable to live; He is tired of having to become himself.

For Ehrenberg, depression is the pathological expression of the inability of modern man to become himself. However, depression also derives from impoverished attachment [Bindungsarmut], which is a characteristic of the growing fragmentation and atomization of life in society.

Actually, it is not the excess of responsibility and initiative that sick one, but the imperative to achieve it: the new commandment of the modern late labor society.

Private tiredness, not ours, but mine here and yours over there.

Neoliberalism represents a highly efficient, and even intelligent system, to exploit freedom. Everything that belongs to the expressive practices and forms of freedom - Employment, Game and Communication - becomes exploited.

Immigrants and refugees are more likely to be perceived as charges than threats.

All age has its own afflictions. Thus, there was a bacterial era; At the latest, he ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite the generalized fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral era. Thanks to immune technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological point of view, the incipient 21st century is not determined by bacteria or viruses, but by neurons.

Neurological diseases such as depression, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD), Limit personality disorder (DBP) and exhaustion syndrome mark the landscape of pathology at the beginning of the 21st century.

The depressive human being is an animal work that exploits itself, and voluntarily does it, without external restrictions.

The complaint of the depressive individual, "nothing is possible" can only happen in a society that thinks "nothing is impossible".

If the dream represents the highest point of body relaxation, deep boredom is the top of mental relaxation. A purely agitated career does not produce anything new. Reproduce and accelerate what is already available.

The subject-logro is fighting with himself.

The depressive has been injured by the internalized war.

Depression is the disease of a society that suffers from excessive positivity.

In the course of general acceleration and hyperactivity we are also losing the ability to anger.

Now one exploits himself appearing that he is being carried out; It is the perfidious logic of neoliberalism that culminates in burned worker syndrome.

There are no longer against the revolution, there are no others where repression comes from.

Without the presence of the other, communication degenerates into an exchange of information: relationships are replaced by connections, and thus only link with the same.

Digital communication is only seen, we have lost all the senses; We are in a weakened phase of communication, like never: global communication and likes only consent to those who are more equal to one; The same does not hurt!.

I have cultivated a secret garden that has given me contact with reality: colors, smells, sensations ... It has allowed me to realize the alterity of the earth: the earth had weight, everything did with my hands; The digital does not weigh, it does not smell, does not oppose resistance, you pass a finger and it is already.

Being observed today is a central aspect of being in the world.

The narcissist is blind when seeing the other.

One feels free in the relationships of love and friendship. It is not the absence of links, but the links themselves that free us. Libertad is a word that belongs to relationships par excellence. Without grip there is no freedom.

In social networks, the function of "friends" is mainly to enhance narcissism by paying attention, as consumers, the ego exhibited as merchandise.

Culture presupposes an environment in which deep attention is possible. More and more, this immersive reflection is being displaced by a completely different form of attention: hyperactivity.

The violence of positivity does not deprive, saturates; It does not exclude, exhaust.

What is problematic is not individual competition per se, but its self -referentiality, which becomes absolute competition. That is, the subject of the achievement competes with himself; succumbs to the destructive compulsion of overcoming yourself again and again, to jump on your own shadow. This self -control, which is made by freedom, has mortal results.

Deep tiredness loosen identity restrictions. Things blink, spark and vibrate at the edges. They become less determined and more porous and lose some of their resolution. This particular difference gives you a friendship aura. Rigid delimitation with respect to the environment itself is suspended.

Now, under the neoliberal self -exploitation regime, people are returning their aggression against themselves. This self -agriculture makes the exploited are not so inclined to the revolution as depression.

Today we live in a very poor world in interruptions; Missing 'intermediates' and 'between times'.

The era of hurry, its cinematographic succession of specific presences, does not have access to beauty or truth. Only in a prolonged contemplation, even in an ascetic moderation, things discover their beauty, their fragrant essence. It consists of temporary sediments that issue a phosphorescent glow.

Faced with the infinity of time, the brief human life is a nothing.

These are some of the most significant phrases of Byung Chul Han, art professor in Berlin and who has been interested in the society of fatigue and depression.

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Bibliography

• Han, b. C. (2014). Psychopolitics: neoliberalism and new power techniques. Editorial Herder.
• Han, b. C. (2020). The Burnout Society. Stanford University Press.
• Han, b. C. (2017). The Society of Tiredness: Second Expanded Edition. Editorial Herder.
• Han, b. C. (2020). The Transparency Society. Stanford University Press.