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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
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 tyranny of intimacy psychologizes and personalizes everything.
Byung-Chul Han • The Transparency Society
What eludes Arendt in the dialectic of being-active [Aktivsein] is that hyperactive intensification leads to an abrupt switch into hyperpassivity; now one obeys every impulse or stimulus without resistance. Instead of freedom, it produces new constraints. It is an illusion to believe that being more active means being freer.