Name: Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld
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Author: Byung-Chul Han
ISBN: 9781509551705

portada Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

Type

Physical Book

Author

Byung-Chul Han

Translated by

Daniel Steuer

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

English

Pages

110

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781509551705

Synopsis "Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld"

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives. Byung-Chul Han's critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too, and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.

Byung-Chul Han

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Byung-Chul Han (Seúl, Corea del Sur, 1959) estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Friburgo y Literatura alemana y Teología en la Universidad de Múnich. En 1994 se doctoró por la primera de dichas universidades con una tesis sobre Martin Heidegger. Tras su habilitación dio clases de filosofía en la universidad de Basilea, desde 2010 fue profesor de filosofía y teoría de los medios en la Escuela Superior de Diseño de Karlsruhe y desde 2012 es profesor de Filosofía y Estudios culturales en la Universidad de las Artes de Berlín. Es autor de más de una decena de títulos, la mayoría de los cuales se han traducido al castellano en Herder Editorial.

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