He doesn’t frame it particularly well in the excerpt but I think we can intuit that he means that it pretends to do those things or does the bare minimum.
Reinforcing your pseud forum like takes with surface knowledge from other fields just to sound smark has never been more evident in authors than this dude. His last book is one of the worse I've read.
This homosexual is just trying to distract the braindead masses by attacking 'neoliberalism' and supporting the NWO with mass immigration at the same time
He's Asian. They learn aspects of western form but can't provide the meaningful content, the soul if you will. It's like the tinkling sentimentalised way a chink plays the piano, or how the movies look slick but they're mishmash of western style and genre as if that alone will take care of the coherence and content.
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This homosexual is just trying to distract the braindead masses by attacking 'neoliberalism' and supporting the NWO with mass immigration at the same time
He's not wrong, but also not a very astute observation. What it fails to mention is that neoliberal capitalism manufactures people's wants, needs and desires too, it doesn't just acquiesce to pre-existing ones. Nobody buys 100 pair of shoes if they weren't on some level propagandized into thinking that kind of behavior is good.
>Smart power does not operate through orders or prohibitions.
What were the politics of Covid if not orders and prohibitions?
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If the argument was that smart power had replaced all other manner of power than I would have to agree. But I don't think that is the case. Not sure what Asian Mark Fisher has to say about it, but I think what he labels as smart power is just the latest iteration of the velvet glove that conceals the iron fist, and that limited to this, his analysis is more sound than not.
I do however think that covid certainly served as a generational reminder of the monopoly on force which is something some people seemed to have forgotten exists.
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>what he labels as smart power is just the latest iteration of the velvet glove that conceals the iron fist
Yes, I agree, but I don't get what's so interesting about his observation. That power presents itself in a 'soft' manner is trivial – anyone can see that. But these different models of velvet gloves are still being woven in the totalitarian system of global schooling, which is neither liberal nor democratic in itself, and which is ultimately predicated on violence.
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>If the argument was that smart power had replaced all other manner of power than I would have to agree.
This is similar to one of issue I had with The Burnout Society. In he he argues that society has moved from a disciplinary model towards one centered around achievement. His conception of an achievement society is a pretty interesting idea, and I think he derives some valuable insights from it, but I think it's a bit of a generalization to say that it is replacing the discipline society is a bit of a reach. Even in western countries, I don't think this is true, especially when you take into account the kind of social stratification that exists in theme.
byung-chul han reminds me of those shitty "deep" images boomers post on their Facebook page.
his writing seems deep and complex thanks to his style which is reminiscent of more interesting thinkers (Adorno, Baudrillard, Deleuze, etc.) but there isn't much substance to any of his assertions. He just sounds smart without really being smart.
He's Asian. They learn aspects of western form but can't provide the meaningful content, the soul if you will. It's like the tinkling sentimentalised way a chink plays the piano, or how the movies look slick but they're mishmash of western style and genre as if that alone will take care of the coherence and content.
Even worse he's a asiatic. They are soulless mutts that just gave up and started to worship the worst aspects of Western capitalism and chink tradition.
I don't dislike all aspects of their various cultural personae, it's mostly down to the inapt way they attempt to (and believe they do) excel at Western cultural forms. It's not a unidirectional feeling. You'd be hard-pressed to have a Chinese praise a white person's ability to write and perform xiqu etc
Even worse he's a asiatic. They are soulless mutts that just gave up and started to worship the worst aspects of Western capitalism and chink tradition.
He's Asian. They learn aspects of western form but can't provide the meaningful content, the soul if you will. It's like the tinkling sentimentalised way a chink plays the piano, or how the movies look slick but they're mishmash of western style and genre as if that alone will take care of the coherence and content.
Westerners are only good at suck israelite dick and spewing obscurantist bullshit to justify their pedantic nonsense. East Asians at least have religious traditions that make sense unlike you soulless lunatics.
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Lol this chink shook.
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Go backing to sucking that israelite's dick on the cross.
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Westerners are only good at suck israelite dick and spewing obscurantist bullshit to justify their pedantic nonsense. East Asians at least have religious traditions that make sense unlike you soulless lunatics.
>suck israelite dick
sucking israelite dick*
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>me freethinking spiritual asiatic >Me defend my hive >Me samegay my opinions despite being one of a billion insects in hive
I believe it's new but I haven't read it, I found the excerpt on twitter. I need IQfy to tell me what my opinion of it should be when I pretend to friends that I've read it
is he good for people learning german (currently at b1 level)? i was thinking about reading middle school difficulty books in german and this guy’s writing seems to fit the bill.
You can try, the syntax is definitely easy. The problem is, he often does some word play where he fricks around with certain grammatical aspects of German, I think he adapted that from Heidegger.
No, only read him in German. It's certainly impressive how he learned German from scratch as a Korean, and writes in this elegant idiosyncratic style at a high level.
Ah, I seen what you mean now. I personally haven't read Han yet but I have already seen complaints about him apparently just recycling Baudrillard and writing the same book over and over again.
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Reading The Burnout Society only really turned me against "theory" more than anything else. It was amazing how much meandering bullshit he could fit into seventy pages.
here is an excerpt
>the neoliberal regime
no such thing, touch grass
>this regime goes out of its way to meet our needs and fulfill our desires
>I-IT'S BAD B-BECAUSE IT JUST IS ALRIGHT!?!?
He doesn’t frame it particularly well in the excerpt but I think we can intuit that he means that it pretends to do those things or does the bare minimum.
based
cringe
Reinforcing your pseud forum like takes with surface knowledge from other fields just to sound smark has never been more evident in authors than this dude. His last book is one of the worse I've read.
I agree with this analysis on the whole, but I think psychopolitics contains some useful insights. He definitely uses many words to say very little
This isn't any more impressive than something you'd read on here.
These
Yeah, it does look like a post you'd see on here, IQfy or /misc/.
>It is permissive rather than oppressive.
lol no
Bad prose.
This homosexual is just trying to distract the braindead masses by attacking 'neoliberalism' and supporting the NWO with mass immigration at the same time
hasn't he said this like three times before? All his books are the same. Just read psychopolitics and call it a day.
so is it /misc/shit like harassment architecture?
Yes
Looks like everything else I've read by him.
He's not wrong, but also not a very astute observation. What it fails to mention is that neoliberal capitalism manufactures people's wants, needs and desires too, it doesn't just acquiesce to pre-existing ones. Nobody buys 100 pair of shoes if they weren't on some level propagandized into thinking that kind of behavior is good.
This reads like a cliff notes of BNW but with terrible prose.
refuted by covid
how
>Smart power does not operate through orders or prohibitions.
What were the politics of Covid if not orders and prohibitions?
If the argument was that smart power had replaced all other manner of power than I would have to agree. But I don't think that is the case. Not sure what Asian Mark Fisher has to say about it, but I think what he labels as smart power is just the latest iteration of the velvet glove that conceals the iron fist, and that limited to this, his analysis is more sound than not.
I do however think that covid certainly served as a generational reminder of the monopoly on force which is something some people seemed to have forgotten exists.
>what he labels as smart power is just the latest iteration of the velvet glove that conceals the iron fist
Yes, I agree, but I don't get what's so interesting about his observation. That power presents itself in a 'soft' manner is trivial – anyone can see that. But these different models of velvet gloves are still being woven in the totalitarian system of global schooling, which is neither liberal nor democratic in itself, and which is ultimately predicated on violence.
>If the argument was that smart power had replaced all other manner of power than I would have to agree.
This is similar to one of issue I had with The Burnout Society. In he he argues that society has moved from a disciplinary model towards one centered around achievement. His conception of an achievement society is a pretty interesting idea, and I think he derives some valuable insights from it, but I think it's a bit of a generalization to say that it is replacing the discipline society is a bit of a reach. Even in western countries, I don't think this is true, especially when you take into account the kind of social stratification that exists in theme.
>the neoliberal regime
>capitalism
Leftoid phantoms. Only concrete historical actors are real
>all the seething Davos shills replying to this
Based
The Han Solo of philosophy?
byung-chul han reminds me of those shitty "deep" images boomers post on their Facebook page.
his writing seems deep and complex thanks to his style which is reminiscent of more interesting thinkers (Adorno, Baudrillard, Deleuze, etc.) but there isn't much substance to any of his assertions. He just sounds smart without really being smart.
pic related
this. he's the quintessential european midwit-core writer
He's Asian. They learn aspects of western form but can't provide the meaningful content, the soul if you will. It's like the tinkling sentimentalised way a chink plays the piano, or how the movies look slick but they're mishmash of western style and genre as if that alone will take care of the coherence and content.
Yeah if anything he is an example of 'neoliberalism's' permissiveness if one fulfill a symbolic role.
Even worse he's a asiatic. They are soulless mutts that just gave up and started to worship the worst aspects of Western capitalism and chink tradition.
is this what pol does to your brain
I don't dislike all aspects of their various cultural personae, it's mostly down to the inapt way they attempt to (and believe they do) excel at Western cultural forms. It's not a unidirectional feeling. You'd be hard-pressed to have a Chinese praise a white person's ability to write and perform xiqu etc
Thanks. I wanted to point out that he is of asian origin and thus not capable of philosophy other than fortune cookie texts
Westerners are only good at suck israelite dick and spewing obscurantist bullshit to justify their pedantic nonsense. East Asians at least have religious traditions that make sense unlike you soulless lunatics.
Lol this chink shook.
Go backing to sucking that israelite's dick on the cross.
>suck israelite dick
sucking israelite dick*
>me freethinking spiritual asiatic
>Me defend my hive
>Me samegay my opinions despite being one of a billion insects in hive
basadamente
Sogdians were not Westerners, you LARPing pos.
Is it actually a new book (pamphlet), or is it his... 6th(?) rerelease of Burnout Society?
I believe it's new but I haven't read it, I found the excerpt on twitter. I need IQfy to tell me what my opinion of it should be when I pretend to friends that I've read it
I like his prose style in the original German. Very short sentences. Aphoristic style. Thoughts, feelings, elephants. Geomagnetic stimuli.
is he good for people learning german (currently at b1 level)? i was thinking about reading middle school difficulty books in german and this guy’s writing seems to fit the bill.
You can try, the syntax is definitely easy. The problem is, he often does some word play where he fricks around with certain grammatical aspects of German, I think he adapted that from Heidegger.
thank you. i will give it a shot.
have you read both? is he much better in German?
No, only read him in German. It's certainly impressive how he learned German from scratch as a Korean, and writes in this elegant idiosyncratic style at a high level.
What does he say about elephants?
No, I do not read pseudointellectual “theorists” that Verso spams in advertising
Your disagreements with him don't make him a pseudointellectual.
Byung-Chul Han is a midwit who regurgitates Foucault and Baudrillard without any understanding of their work. Read Ellul.
>Read Ellul
>reading seething propagandized machines
Might as well read Byung-Chul Han
I have. Ellul is the most important 20th century thinker
>author's name bigger than the book title
pass
Ah, I seen what you mean now. I personally haven't read Han yet but I have already seen complaints about him apparently just recycling Baudrillard and writing the same book over and over again.
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Non-things by a Non-entity
Reading The Burnout Society only really turned me against "theory" more than anything else. It was amazing how much meandering bullshit he could fit into seventy pages.