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Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
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Byung-Chul Han
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Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.
This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Noble, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Allie McSwain.
©2017 Byung-Chul Han (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
- De: Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise - translator, Phillip Mitsis - editor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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Beyond the rehashed clichés, this book inspires us to rediscover Diogenes' philosophical legacy—whether it be the challenge to the established order, the detachment from materialism, the choice of a return to nature, or the formulation of a cosmopolitan ideal strongly rooted in the belief that virtue is better revealed in action than in theory.
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Diogenes is something else!
- De Josiah S. en 01-31-25
De: Jean-Manuel Roubineau, y otros
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Being and Time
- De: Martin Heidegger
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain, Taylor Carman
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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Being and Time was published in 1927 during the Weimar period in Germany, a time of political, social and economic turmoil. Heidegger himself did not escape the pressures and his nationalism, and undeniable anti-Semitism in the following decades cast a shadow over the man, but not the work. Being and Time is not coloured by expressions of his later views (unlike other writings) and remains an outstanding document.
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Surprised it works as audio
- De Anonymous en 02-02-20
De: Martin Heidegger
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Superbloom
- How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
- De: Nicholas Carr
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.
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Absolutely Necessary.
- De JT en 05-18-25
De: Nicholas Carr
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Being and Nothingness
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
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In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance. In a new and more accessible translation, this foundational text argues that we alone create our values and our existence is characterized by freedom and the inescapability of choice.
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One of my all time favorite books
- De M.Biblioswine en 03-06-25
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
o capitulo capitalismo emocional foi o mais interessante na minha opinião
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Outstanding analysis
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The concept of a neoliberal panopticon in which, in contrast with coercive systems as described in 1984, we willingly participate is accurate and also quite obvious. Neoliberalism is better described by the decadence of Brave New World.
This point, which the author makes over and over again is banal at this point especially when you read in this thread often. The author explores Foucault's concept of biopolitics in which governments attempt to control the bodies of its people. The author argues that this has transformed into psychopolitics in which we are ensnared in a prison of our minds more than the body wherein our data is used to predict and mold our behaviors. To this point the author says something like "The smartphone has become the new torture chamber." The utter false equivalency aside from comparing bodily torture to smart phone capital surveillance, I'd like to explore what is is about this book that bothers me so much.
This author obscures much of what he says behind jargon and ambiguity. This is deliberate. Here's what I mean: there are many concepts in this work that are obscure and generalized (like the data sex stuff? or dictatorship of emotions?) unless perhaps you are an initiated into Hegelian school of thought which is the underpinning of this entire book. The problem with the mentality of books like this is that you are either an acolyte or a western propagandist, there is no in between and there is no room for dissent. The author hides much of what he says behind jargon and if you call it out you "just didn't understand the text." I run into this conceit constantly with the ethos of this writer and many like him. There is a certain disingenuity in quoting 1984 as a critique of neoliberalism while completely ignoring the deliberate critique of Stalinism found in 1984. There is selective recall when focusing on the body and mental panopticon of neoliberalism regimes while ignoring the relatively same strategy of communist regimes.
The problem with the mentality of books like this is that you are either an acolyte or a western propagandist, there is no in between and there is no room for dissent. The author hides much of what he says behind jargon and if you call it out you "just didn't understand the text." I run into this conceit constantly with the ethos of this writer and many like him. There is a certain disingenuity in quoting 1984 as a critique of neoliberalism while completely ignoring the deliberate critique of Stalinism found in 1984. There is selective recall when focusing on the body and mental panopticon of neoliberalism regimes while ignoring the relatively same strategy of communist regimes. The apologetics are in the omission.
The problem I find with this is that a lot of the conclusions of this book are pretty obvious to anyone who gives a single critical thought to neoliberalism. Someone with no clue of any of these concepts knows there is something wrong with the system when corporations get bailouts and debt forgiveness and citizens are laden with debt, work paycheck to paycheck, have no family support and live within contaminated environments. You don't need to "engage with dialectics" to understand the glaring flaws of neoliberalism. Marxists do not have a monopoly over capitalist critiques.
Books like this have no solutions, only cynicism and doom scrolling. I've realized l've brought a lot of my own baggage into this review and perhaps that is unfair to this book.
However, I have no doubt with this author that if I were to push back on his ideas or possible hypocrisies l'd be deemed a western propagandist and dismissed with that thought terminating cliché.
Jargon and ambiguity are not honest intellectualism
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