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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
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia (Spanish Edition)
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The tyranny of intimacy psychologizes and personalizes everything.
Byung-Chul Han • The Transparency Society
Today’s terror of short-termism — which, with fatal consequences, we mistake for freedom — destroys the practices that require time.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”