Byung-Chul Han

“definición (High Definition) de la información no deja nada indefinido.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“Baudrillard, Las estrategias fatales, Barcelona,”

— Byung-Chul Han

“Uno se defiende de la violencia ejerciéndola activamente. Uno mata para no ser asesinado. Matar protege frente a la muerte.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“El ocaso de los Dioses, Nietzsche formula tres tareas por las que se requieren educadores: hay que aprender a mirar, a pensar…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Love of self is still determined by negativity insofar as it devalues and wards off the Other in favor of the Own.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“La crisis actual del arte, y también de la literatura, puede atribuirse a la crisis de la fantasía, a la desaparición del…

— Byung-Chul Han

“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“Neoliberalism represents a highly efficient, indeed an intelligent, system for exploiting freedom. Everything that belongs to practices and expressive forms of liberty…

— Byung-Chul Han

“«primera enseñanza preliminar para la espiritualidad». Según Nietzsche, uno tiene que aprender a «no responder inmediatamente a un impulso, sino a controlar…

— Byung-Chul Han

“So long as what is foreign does not attract unwelcome attention, immune defenses ignore it. It follows that the biological immune system…

— Byung-Chul Han

“sujeto de rendimiento de la Modernidad tardía no está sometido a nadie. De hecho, ya no es un sujeto, pues ha dejado…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down,…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another…

— Byung-Chul Han

“The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible.” No-longer-being-able-to-be-able leads…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite…

— Byung-Chul Han