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This book brings together 14 articles and 2 conversations by Byung-Chul Han about the expansion of capitalism and its consequences. What we call "growth" today is actually the consequence of an excessive increase in carcinomas destroying the social organism. These tumors ceaselessly metastasize and...

The irrevocable loss that death brings is a cause of horror for us. However, beyond this terrifying vision, the reflection on death finds its expression in a singular rhetoric that multiplies it and turns it into a phenomenon, a manifestation and even a living...

In this essay, Byung-Chul Han rereads Heidegger in all his stages as the vindication of a friendly world. The heart, according to Hölderlin's accurate clarification, is the organ that permanently makes the blood flow and ebb, disengage and reencounter in assimilations and emissions, in...

Wars, mass migrations, attacks, climate catastrophes, crises and pandemics: very diverse apocalyptic scenarios confront us with an imminent threat of collapse and extinction. And as we go from catastrophe to catastrophe, our true life is suffocated and reduced to pure survival. However, Hope opens...

Narratives create bonds. From them is born what connects and links us. In this way, they found communities and save us from contingency. However, today, when everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling has become a commercial weapon that transforms storytelling into another tool...

This new essay by Byung-Chul Han is a call to safeguard the sources of social adherence and familiarity. The contemporary world rites are perceived as obsolescence and expendable. For Byung-Chul Han, his progressive disappearance leads to the wear and tear of the community and...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information, and consumption. What used to be the Other is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. This...

The polished, the smooth, the impeccable, are the hallmark of our time. They are what Jeff Koons sculptures, smartphones and waxing have in common. These qualities highlight the current "excess of positivity" that Han speaks of in other essays, but that he focuses on...

In this essay, Han argues that Western society is undergoing a paradigm shift towards a "society of fatigue" due to an excess of positivity. According to him, each era has its emblematic diseases: the bacterial era ended with antibiotics, and although we fear pandemics,...

In this original work, Byung-chul Han turns gardening into an art where you can exercise meditation and reflect on beauty, life, and worship. In gardening, this power of life can be appreciated and learned. Gardening then becomes an art where meditation and prayer are...

Byung-Chul Han continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. Han elaborates a framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology...