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Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation by Byung-Chul Han

danielvorley's review

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challenging reflective fast-paced

3.5

A very esoteric start with lots of re-reading lines to understand the lexicon he uses, but it builds into something very reflective on today’s cultures in a world of increasing globalisation.

amyrhoda's review

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I'm not deep enough into philosophy for this book, I couldn't follow the language

vermilious's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

chillcox15's review

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4.0

Pretty impressive that this is as approachable of an introduction to a concept like “hyperculture” while not shortselling the ideas within!

interlibraryloan's review

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3.0

nodding in a way that’s not overly polite but instead siteless and rhizomatic. a lot of really interesting things to chew on a la globalization and our culture becoming hypertext

gab_'s review

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inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

ferna's review against another edition

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4.0

Corto, pero bastante pesado. De esos libros que debes anotar.

puffkush's review against another edition

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5.0

Debo empezar diciendo, que el texto me ha encantado.

Es la tercera obra que leo de este autor y estando ya mucho más familiarizado con su forma de escritura, me ha costado menos comprender los mensajes que envía a través de su escritura. Una radiografía concisa sobre el "avance" de la cultura y su desarrollo en el tiempo contemporaneo. Un análisis con sus contrapartes y un claro mensaje por parte de Byunh-Chul, la hipercultura es un "estar-aquí", ya todo no parece desarrollarse de forma línea con un voy de aquí para alla, sino, ahora con todo lo que tenemos a mano respecto a la forma en como nos conectamos en un ambiente global es necesario entender que los límites se están diluyendo y cada día hacemos parte de un gran "todo" globalizado. Ahora no vamos de aquí para alla, si no que estamos siempre "aquí" sin importar el lugar y por supuesto, la identidad del hombre se ve claramente afectada por esta condición, que es particularmente de "nuestro tiempo" no de tiempos pasados.

exaltations's review

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informative reflective fast-paced

2.75

Not bad — an accurate assessment of the state of things. However almost everything of value in this book is discussed at greater length with slightly more accurate terminology Deleuze and Guattari in Capitalism & Schizophrenia. Han draws on them in one chapter which discusses the rhizome, but I think the book would have benefitted from discussion of Deleuze and Guattari’s work on becoming-x and multiplicity.  Overall I don’t think Han is saying anything too new here — the word “Hyperculture” could really be replaced with “rhizomatic culture” and nothing would change.