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No community, in the strong sense, can form in the society of transparency. Instead, chance gatherings [Ansammlungen] or crowds [Vielheiten] of isolated individuals, or egos, emerge; they pursue a mutual interest or cluster around a product line (“brand communities”).
Byung-Chul Han • The Transparency Society
for my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H
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The tyranny of intimacy psychologizes and personalizes everything.
Byung-Chul Han • The Transparency Society
Han believes the German Romantic tradition to be the bearer of a similar albeit distinct conception of universal friendliness, in which all human beings may become ‘ fellow citizens in a republic of the living ’. It is a conception that mediates between the East’s indifferent friendliness and the West’s passionate friendship, between the... See more