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Saving Beauty (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oxford, 2017
ISBN 10: 1509515100 ISBN 13: 9781509515103
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster. This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media. 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 and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Infocracy (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oxford, 2022
ISBN 10: 1509552987 ISBN 13: 9781509552986
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy. In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary information capitalism. Whereas the disciplinary regime of industrial capitalism worked with compulsion and repression, this new information regime exploits freedom instead of repressing it. Surveillance and punishment give way to motivation and optimization: we imagine that we are free, but in reality our entire lives are recorded so that our behaviour might be psychopolitically controlled. Under the neoliberal information regime, mechanisms of power function not because people are aware of the fact of constant surveillance but because they perceive themselves to be free. This trenchant critique of politics in the information age will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences and to anyone concerned about the fate of politics in our time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Capitalism and the Death Drive (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oxford, 2021
ISBN 10: 150954500X ISBN 13: 9781509545001
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 rather destructive. Capitalism passed this point long ago. Its destructive forces cause not only ecological and social catastrophes but also mental collapse. The destructive compulsion to perform combines self-affirmation and self-destruction in one. We optimize ourselves to death. Brutal competition ends in destruction. It produces an emotional coldness and indifference towards others as well as towards ones own self. The devastating consequences of capitalism suggest that a death drive is at work. Freud initially introduced the death drive hesitantly, but later admitted that he couldnt think beyond it as the idea of the death drive became increasingly central to his thought. Today, it is impossible to think about capitalism without considering the death drive. "Originally published in German as Kapitalismus und Todestrieb A MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2019"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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