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26 Feb 2024

Will Absence Make My Heart Grow Fonder of Byung-Chul Han? (Part 2)

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  Cover of the original German edition (2007) [a]     I. According to Byung-Chul Han: "Anti-gravity is the fundamental characteristic ...
25 Feb 2024

Will Absence Make My Heart Grow Fonder of Byung-Chul Han? (Part 1)

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(Polity Press, 2023)     I.    Although Daniel Steuer's English translation of Byung-Chul Han's book Absence was only published las...
13 Feb 2024

Birthday Reflections

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    I.    February 13th is a day of quiet reflection for me now: the day I was born (1963) and the day my mother died (2023).   In the Bhaga...
15 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Three)

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Cover of the Portuguese edition  (Relógio D'Água, 2022) [a]     I. The ethics of inactivity rests, according to Byung-Chul Han, on timi...
15 Nov 2022

Brief Notes on the History of the Human Flock 1: The Pagan Era

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Late Roman marble copy of a Kriophoros by the ancient Greek sculptor Kalamis  (5th-century BC)     Many of us have what might be termed an ...
7 Aug 2022

D. H. Lawrence and the Ache for Being

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DHL Ultimate Hunger Support   (SA/2022)     D. H. Lawrence is particularly scornful of Walt Whitman's claim to be he who aches with amo...
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16 Nov 2021

Reflections on The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han (Part 3: From The Society of Information to The Society of Control)

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ITMA: Byung-Chul Han     IV. The Information Society It could be argued that philosophy begins and ends in Plato's Cave. At any rate, th...