
The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates.
A voice of this school
Byung-Chul Han
Gives modern exhaustion, digital exposure, self-optimization, and loss of ritual a sharp philosophical vocabulary.
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The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates.
A voice of this school
Gives modern exhaustion, digital exposure, self-optimization, and loss of ritual a sharp philosophical vocabulary.
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Gives modern exhaustion, digital exposure, self-optimization, and loss of ritual a sharp philosophical vocabulary.
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