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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-domai

The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting man

Dit boek is een uitgave van Ten Have/De Nieuwe Wereld. In zijn nieuwe boek ‘Infocratie’ beschrijft Byung-Chul Han de huidige crisis van de democra

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

In this manifesto, German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest of our contemporary mythologies, an

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a d

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being.  And yet in our contemporary informatio

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contra

Dit boek is een uitgave van Ten Have/De Nieuwe Wereld. In zijn nieuwe essay ‘De palliatieve maatschappij’ werpt Byung-Chul Han een kritisch licht

Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards

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

EIN INSPIRIERENDER GEGENENTWURF ZU HANNAH ARENDTS VITA ACTIVA ODER VOM TÄTIGEN LEBEN Die Untätigkeit, so Byung-Chul Han, macht das Humanum aus. Sie

Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticit

Vrijheid is niet absoluut, maar roept nieuwe vormen van dwang en discipline op. Niet langer worden we gedisciplineerd door machten van buitenaf, maar

In onze prestatiemaatschappij worden we niet meer door geboden, verboden en regels beheerst, maar door projecten, initiatieven en motivatie. Dat klink

Dit boek is een uitgave van Ten Have/De Nieuwe Wereld. De Duits-Koreaanse filosoof Byung-Chul Han is een van de belangrijkste denkers van dit mome

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being.  And yet in our contemporary informatio

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.'Breathtaking . . . She is simply