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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
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Liv Strömquist talade om den här i ett avsnitt av Lilla Drevet och jag fastnade för den koreansk-tyske filosofens teori om hur vi på något sekel gått från disciplinsamhälle till prestationssamhälle.
Förr styrdes vi av auktoriteter som kyrkan, familjen, normer och traditioner. Samhället, med Foucaults termer, utövade kontroll över lydnadssubjekten genom fabriker, kaserner, hospital, dårhus, fängelser eller dylika institutioner.
Idag tyngs vi - individuellt, fast också strukturellt - av det gränslösa "yes, we can", "having it all", "if you can dream it you can do it" o.s.v. I detta ingår träning på toknivå, utseendefix och att entreprenöra och maximera allt, allt, allt, för att uppnå det perfekta livet. Ett avsnitt jag särskilt uppskattar är det om Bartleby, som föredrar att INTE...
Förr styrdes vi av auktoriteter som kyrkan, familjen, normer och traditioner. Samhället, med Foucaults termer, utövade kontroll över lydnadssubjekten genom fabriker, kaserner, hospital, dårhus, fängelser eller dylika institutioner.
Idag tyngs vi - individuellt, fast också strukturellt - av det gränslösa "yes, we can", "having it all", "if you can dream it you can do it" o.s.v. I detta ingår träning på toknivå, utseendefix och att entreprenöra och maximera allt, allt, allt, för att uppnå det perfekta livet. Ett avsnitt jag särskilt uppskattar är det om Bartleby, som föredrar att INTE...
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Very challenging for me to understand - though I enjoyed the process of attempting to follow along. Even so - I have many underlines and highlights and stars in the margins. I think I’ll need some smarter person to truly help me connect some of the dots of this book. I also struggled to connect fully with the assertion that societally we have left behind our tendency to “other” other cultures or ways of being in our pursuit of globalization which much of his thesis is predicated on. Indeed, it seems like today in the US the concepts of othering and negation are very alive and well - but this book material was written some time ago, not in the US, and let’s be honest I might not really understand what he meant anyways. Nevertheless, while I sometimes felt my lived experience of this concept was at odds with his assertion, the result on individuals he describes I completely relate to. That is - we no longer need others to exploit our labor as we do it to ourselves.
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Byung-Chul Han does an amazing job at describing a quite easy theory like it was neuroscience. Hated reading the last 40 pages. He could have summed all of this up in 150 words.
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the key idea is obvious and something that every philosopher on earth would comment on the current mode of things, yet, Han tends to repetitively draw the same/ similar conclusions and inferences from references to validate his point. the first chapter was his work and his main thesis, the rest becomes a literature review with little insight to gain, it feels lack in content and meaning. (perhaps that's him preventing himself from feeling burnt out idk)