information
By posting, sharing and liking, we subordinate ourselves to the context of domination.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
Human beings are reduced to data sets that can be controlled and exploited.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
How do we slow down the waves of information rushing towards us? Can we filter or must we eliminate the sources?
Noisy information – the ‘rustling in the leaves’ – drives the dream bird away. Amid the murmur of the press, there can be ‘no more weaving and spinning’, only the production and consumption of information as stimuli.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
It is effective only for a moment. Bits of information are like specks of dust, not seeds of grain. They lack germinal force. Once they are registered, they immediately sink into oblivion,
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
Unlike information, a piece of news possesses a temporal breadth through which it is related to what is to come beyond the present moment. It is pregnant with history.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
Being and information are mutually exclusive. A lack of being, a forgetfulness of being, is thus immanent to the information society. Information is additive and cumulative. It is not a bearer of sense, whereas a narration carries sense. The original meaning of ‘sense’ is direction. Today, we are perfectly informed, but we lack orientation.
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Information is only a point in time with no direction. In order for information to have meaning and direction, it must be integrated into narrative form.