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Portuguese edition: A Sociedade da Transparência, Relógio D'Água Editores, 2014, ISBN 9789896414634. Play more and work less: A visit with Byung-Chul Han in Karlsruhe". Sign and Sight. 2011-07-25 . Retrieved 2012-06-09.

There are several factors and dynamics that feed the burnout society. They’re as follows: Toxic positivismWe do not understand that we have fallen into the trap that Zygmunt Bauman warned us of: looking for biographical solutions to what are structural and systemic problems of the society. This closes around us a circle of dissatisfaction that, if we don’t pay attention, we could drag on throughout life. How to get out of that vicious circle?

Disciplinary society is a society of negativity. It is defined by the negativity of prohibition. The negative modal verb that governs it is May Not. By the same token, the negativity of compulsion adheres to Should. Achievement society, more and more, is in the process of discarding negativity. Increasing deregulation is abolishing it. Unlimited Can is the positive modal verb of achievement society. Its plural form—the affirmation, “Yes, we can”—epitomizes achievement society’s positive orientation. Prohibitions, commandments, and the law are replaced by projects, initiatives, and motivation. Disciplinary society is still governed by no. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement society creates depressives and losers. Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves. . . . The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.1 Viral violence cannot account for neuronal illnesses such as depression, ADHD, or burnout syndrome, for it follows the immunological scheme of inside and outside, Own and Other; it presumes the existence of singularity or alterity which is hostile to the system. Neuronal violence does not proceed from system-foreign negativity. Instead, it is systemic—that is, system-immanent—violence. Depression, ADHD, and burnout syndrome point to excess positivity. Burnout syndrome occurs when the ego overheats, which follows from too much of the Same. The hyper in hyperactivity is not an immunological category. It represents the massification of the positive. Notes In the Jewish and Christian traditions, this is well understood by the Biblical law of the Sabbath. The word Sabbath originally meant “stopping” [or aufhö ren in German, which evokes the action of ‘hearing out’]. Hence, Sabbath is a day of not-to. It is a matter of interval, of ‘in-between time’ [or Zwischenzeit] when we decide not to be active.This theme is explored in detail in The Burnout Society , a short work dating from 2010. Han begins by introducing the idea of a society based on the language of immunology, with life revolving around the self and others, the familiar and the alien. What this meant is that in politics and society people acted very much as our bodies do when an infection is detected, isolating and annihilating the threat; as a result, anything not forming part of the whole is automatically part of this threat (here Han gives the example of Cold War rhetoric). You’ll note the use of the past tense here, and this is because the writer believes that this was a 20th-century concept and that we’ve moved on (to which I can only say Trump, Brexit, refugees on Manus Island … ). a b Kraft, Steffen (7 June 2012). "Klarheit schaffen". der Freitag (in German). Archived from the original on 16 September 2018 . Retrieved 3 July 2012.

Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019) ISBN 0262537508 Brazilian Portuguese edition: Hegel e o Poder: Um ensaio sobre amabilidade, Vozes, Petrópolis, 2022 ISBN 9786557134214. The underlying question is therefore one of telos, of ultimate aim. What is the purpose of all this effort? Why maximise achievement to this end? Why pursue function without disturbance, to what end? Han writes: “the society of achievement and activeness is generating excessive tiredness and exhaustion.”

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Brazilian Portuguese edition: Sociedade da Transparência, Vozes, Petrópolis, 2017 ISBN 9788532654717.

Han argues that subjects become self-exploiters: "Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself." [9] The individual has become what Han calls "the achievement-subject"; the individual does not believe they are subjugated "subjects" but rather "projects: Always refashioning and reinventing ourselves" which "amounts to a form of compulsion and constraint—indeed, to a "more efficient kind of subjectivation and subjugation." As a project deeming itself free of external and alien limitations, the "I" subjugates itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization. [10] The point of view in Han is that Bartleby is someone who has not yet come across depression because it is not moved by the quest to be itself. It only performs monotonous activities, which leave no room for any initiative. Overwork is not his mark so much is that at the end of the tale comes the revelation that he was employed in the card industry, a kind of archive. Byung-chul Han is a Korean writer and philosopher who has spent most of his career in Germany and Switzerland, producing a number of works that have met with success outside academia. This is probably because of his clarity of style and the popularity of his subject matter: he casts a critical eye over modern society and explains why, with the human race as developed as it’s ever been, so many people aren’t really that happy with their lot. Constant Zoom meetings also make us tired. They turn us into Zoom zombies. They force us permanently to look into the mirror. Looking at your own face on the screen is tiring. We are continuously confronted with our own faces. Ironically, the virus appeared precisely at the time of the selfie, a fashion that can be explained as resulting from the narcissism of our society. The virus intensifies this narcissism. During the pandemic, we are all constantly confronted by our own faces; we produce a kind of never-ending selfie in front of our screens. That makes us tired.In recent decades, there has been a steady rise in the popularity of self-help books and a new glorification of ‘hustle’ culture. Working a 9-5 job is no longer enough, you need multiple income streams and a ‘side hustle’. We also see the growing influence of the gig economy, with giants like Uber or DoorDash, which signals the demise of the old Fordist model of work, where a worker could show up regularly to his 9-5 job for forty years straight. Spanish edition: La sociedad de la transparencia. Barcelona, Herder Editorial, 2013, ISBN 9788425432521. Call for Papers: The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto



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