Julianna Noelle
@wonderandwait
Julianna Noelle
By posting, sharing and liking, we subordinate ourselves to the context of domination.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
information and
Human beings are reduced to data sets that can be controlled and exploited.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
Free will and
Freedom is not repressed but comprehensively exploited.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
an information regime that works not through repression but through seduction. It takes on a smart form. It does not operate through imperatives or prohibitions. It does not silence us. Rather, this smart form of domination constantly asks us to communicate our opinions, needs and preferences, to tell our lives, to post, share and like messages.
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?
People who listen carefully are oblivious to themselves; they immerse themselves in what they hear: ‘The more self-forgetful the listener is, the more deeply what he listens to is impressed upon his memory.’14 We are increasingly losing the gift to listen carefully. We play to the gallery; we eavesdrop on each other instead of forgetting ourselves
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community and
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.