Author:: Byung-Chul Han Tags:#media/book society critical theory politics
- themes:: * Summary:: on critical theory[*](examination and critique of society and culture ^HvfcPIU80)
- notes::
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As a mutant form of capitalism, ==neoliberalism transforms workers into entrepreneurs. It is not communist revolution that is now abolishing the allo-exploited working class - instead, neoliberalism is in the course of doing so. Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself.== ^HX5mRiwBr
- allo-exploitation as being directly done to by another entity
- auto-exploitation is when automatically being down without any concrete external entity pulling the strings
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We are living in a particular phase of history: freedom itself is bringing forth compulsion and constraint
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“Should has a limit. In contrast, Can has none. Thus, the compulsion entailed by Can is unlimited ^uGhV8ILVw
- https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory/comments/c8b76o/has_anyone_here_read_byungchul_han/eslpbtl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
- body vs. soul, hierarchical society vs. neoliberal society, mouse vs. snake
- soul comparison is reasoning for Psychopolitics name
- Gamification
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player subjugates themself to the order of domination in the very act of playing. Today, the gamification logic of ‘Likes’, ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ means that social communication is also being plugged into and subordinated to game mode. The corollary of the gamification of communication is its commercialization.
- how to avoid this gamification dynamic? it’s like the marketing phenomenon that has pervaded society and the corresponding anti-marketing phenomenon that is more and more popular with people
- not labor that should be free but us that should be free to do what we want, to play, to piddling around
- theme of being unproductive and making use of the useless
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- Big Data ^sY7l9lsUP
- world is entirely data-driven now, data is the new religion and data is being hailed as the absolute truth
- danger to this in going to extreme where it ends up trapping itself in a false reality, where the data is lying to you
- world is entirely data-driven now, data is the new religion and data is being hailed as the absolute truth
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