"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Byung-Chul Han è un filosofo tedesco contemporaneo nato in Corea, la cui opera esplora la trasformazione della soggettività, del potere e delle relazioni sociali nelle società tardo-moderne e digitali . Ho già parlato di due sue opere: Nello Sciame (qui), che si concentra in particolare sugli effetti della comunicazione digitale sulla percezione, la politica e...
In Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka tries to name a specific distortion he believes is introduced by mediated communication, such as letters, then (already, in 1922) telecoms. Kafka writes this after a long, anguished correspondence in which he repeatedly doubts what writing letters is doing to him and...
Byung-Chul Han is a contemporary German philosopher born in Korea whose work explores the transformation of subjectivity, power, and social relations in late modern and digital societies. In the Swarm fits within this broader inquiry, focusing specifically on the effects of digital communication on perception,...
