Author: Byung-Chul Han

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, user-friendl...

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

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 ...

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

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

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of t...

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the v...

Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the o...

Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Consider...

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

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

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

Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byu...

One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Som...

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

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