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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?
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.
By posting, sharing and liking, we subordinate ourselves to the context of domination.
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
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
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,