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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Futures) Paperback – December 5, 2017

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Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche

Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.
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“A wunderkind of a newly resurgent and unprecedentedly readable German philosophy.”
 —Stuart Jeffries, Guardian

“A combination of neoliberal ethics and ubiquitous data capture has brought about a fundamental transformation and expansion of capitalist power, beyond even the fears of the Frankfurt School. In this blistering critique, Byung-Chul Han shows how capitalism has now finally broken free of liberalism, shrinking the spaces of individuality and autonomy yet further. At the same time, Psychopolitics demonstrates how critical theory can and must be rejuvenated for the age of big data.”
 —Will Davies

“How do we say we? It seems important. How do we imagine collective action, in other words, how do we imagine acting on a scale sufficient to change the social order? How seriously can or should one take the idea of freedom in the era of Big Data? There seems to be something drastically wrong with common ideas about what the word act means. Psychopolitics is a beautifully sculpted attempt to figure out how to mean action differently, in an age where humans are encouraged to believe that it’s possible and necessary to see everything.”
 —Timothy Morton

“The new star of German philosophy.”
—El País

 “What is new about new media? These are philosophical questions for Byung-Chul Han, and precisely here lies the appeal of his essays.”
—Die Welt

 “In Psychopolitics, critique of the media and of capitalism fuse into the coherent picture of a society that has been both blinded and paralyzed by alien forces. Confident and compelling.”
—Spiegel Online

About the Author

Byung-Chul Han, studied metallurgy in Korea, then philosophy, German literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg and Munich. He has taught philosophy at the University of Basel, and philosophy and media theory at the School for Design in Karlsruhe. In 2012, he was appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Han’s other works available in English include The Burnout Society, The Transparency Society and The Agony of Eros.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso (December 5, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784785776
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784785772
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James Kalomiris, The Peripatetic Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2018
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Psycho-Politics is an engrossing, cogent, incisive look at the world we now live in. It describes the economic and governmental manipulation of this cyber-world and how we are all unwittingly being suckered into its dazzling world. This is above all a book about Neoliberalism, which Chul Han aptly describes as “mutant Capitalism.” It carries the well-known concept developed by Michel Foucault, Bio-Politics, one step further to the new realities of the cyber-world of social media. But whereas Foucault discussed how Neoliberalism affects our bodies, Chul Han explains what it is doing to our brains, minds, lives and psyches.

This is one of the very few books that recognizes how the traditional paradigms of Marxist analysis just no longer apply. Psycho-Politics describes the progressive perspective of this new world. In the neo-liberal cyber world, the modes, means, and relations of production have been changed such that the distinction between classes, bourgeois and proletariat, have blurred, changing, mooted, muting their class struggles, having been realigned in relation to the new industries created. Indeed, there is no “industry” in the classic sense, replaced by a cyber world of programs and finance. Many thinkers have not grasped this reality, but Chul Han has.

Chul Han doesn’t leave us hanging and offers occasional responses to the new cyber reality. However, this, I believe, is not the main purpose of his book. Its main purpose is make us aware of how the world has changed and present the changes and social media we all see and use everyday, but may not be aware of or fully appreciate the full social ramifications.

The brevity of Psycho-Politics’s content is compensated by its intellectual insights. It is essential reading.
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Robin L. Billings
5.0 out of 5 stars Revelatory
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022
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This book will open your eyes to the master manipulators behind the neoliberal agenda to commodify and sell everything to you with a friendly face on your coveted smartphone (the new rosary) and your “Likes” (the new “Amen”) while it eats up every last bite your very freedom. The new mantra to save us from ourselves will be: “Protect me from what I want.”
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pilastr
4.0 out of 5 stars Heretical consciousness may yet inspire humanism free of incentivizing binaries of profit or punishment.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2017
Sections 2 and 3 should've been left on the editing room floor, they only repeat and diminish the strength and lucidity of the opening section. The metaphor of moles and snakes is particularly inept since moles in real life dig passageways while snakes merely invade them. Otherwise, concise and clear description of neoliberal psychopolitics makes this a very helpful analysis that's unafraid to face down nihilism to espouse idiotism as the non-entrepreneurial way out, where unguessable unconforming heresy (don't fall for terms like "diversity") may yet inspire humanism free of incentivizing binaries of profit or punishment. This is a must read.
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Ingrid O'Connor
5.0 out of 5 stars capitslism is the worst
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i h8 capitalism
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Joan C.
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2019
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I found this book to be a difficult read due it’s complexity, but compelling.
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Noir de Noir
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read in today's world
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It should be a mandatory read in schools and colleges.
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dc aitchison
2.0 out of 5 stars Questionable style and approach
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018
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I have a hard time liking this book on account of how the author approaches his sources. Here's how it goes: he invokes a writer - say, Naomi Klein - gives a flimsy account of the writer's project, then dismisses it because it doesn't share his niche interests. In other words, for all its references, it isn't really paying any attention to other scholars' ideas and arguments. Which is to say it's thesis driven rather than conversational, holding forth rather than attending to the voices of others. And that seems like a shortcoming in a book about a paradigm shift (neoliberalism) with such profound implications for how the one relates to the many.
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Mr. N. Hatton
5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read book for understanding the evolution of oppression in our post-liberal world.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2024
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A must-read book for anyone wanting to form a modern opinion on power dynamics in our society. So many people still quote Orwell in today's discourse and this is the next step in understanding how oppression works in today's connected world.
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Kimberly Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Arguably one of the most courageous and incisive critical thinkers of our age.
Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2019
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Byung-Chul Han reminds us that digital evangelists promised us many things that have not come to pass. Furthermore the systems that have been created are now being maintained by robots that use machine learning to analyze our on-line behaviour in ways that can be used to create the illusion of freedom and choice -as long as we stay plugged in to cyberspace. Yes we can simply turn off our devices and walk away - or can we?
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Javier Lede
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in Germany on June 24, 2020
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It will make you think deeper on the everyday-use of tech.
His brief and condensed way of writing is highly powerful if you take the time to read it word by word.
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Alysson Oliveira
5.0 out of 5 stars Um retrato do presente degradado
Reviewed in Brazil on August 3, 2018
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Byung-Chul Han é um professor coreano radicado na Alemanha, onde leciona na Universidade das artes em Berlim, está se tornando uma voz conhecida da crítica ao nosso presente de subjetividade estilhaçada e lógica neoliberal. PSYCHOPOLITICS – NEOLIBERALISM AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER, originalmente publicado em alemão, e traduzido para o inglês por Erik Butler, cumpre o que o subtítulo promete.

A intenção de Han é investigar o papel da tecnologia manutenção do liberalismo como regime hegemônico no mundo do presente. Com uma linguagem bastante acessível, sem precisar nivelar seu texto de maneira rasa, o autor começa questionando o conceito de liberdade: “Liberdade provará ter sido meramente um interlúdio”, diz no primeiro parágrafo (as citações são traduzidas por mim mesmo a partir da versão de Butler, publicada pela Verso). Daí, é ladeira abaixo, e o retrato do mundo pode ser assustador.

A impossibilidade de uma revolução – ou só o pensamento desta – é tão imensa que esse é um assunto central para Han – não apenas nesse livros, mas também em outros textos que publicou nos últimos anos. “[Nenhum] *nós político* é sequer possível que poderia emergir e tomar a ação coletiva”. Vivemos a era de uma apatia mediada pela tecnologia. O ativismo digital é um véu competente no sentido de minar muito da transformação do mundo.

Tecnologia, atualmente, está acessível a todos, mas, ao invés de se tornar uma ferramenta de libertação, é mais uma forma de coerção discreta e eficiente. No capítulo mais longo do livro, o Professor analisa o Big Data, e expõe que “[d]ados e números não são narrativos; são aditivos. Significado, por outro lado, é baseado na narração.” Big Data é o novo Big Brother. Tudo aquilo que fazemos na internet é registrado, criando um pan-óptico digital, que nos vigia, categoriza. Somos todos fontes de lucro para o capitalismo – em graus distintos, conforme mostra o livro.

De leitura relativamente fácil, mas, ao mesmo tempo, assustador, Psychopolitics é um livro repleto de (boas) frases de efeito, que, no fim das contas, dão uma dimensão bastante precisa do nosso presente. Han, em alguns momentos, pode até dizer coisas óbvias, coisas que, se pararmos para pensar, estão bem debaixo do nosso nariz, mas o grande mérito dele é dizer de forma sistematizada, é organizar uma narrativa de um tempo cada vez mais degradado pelo neoliberalismo e suas mentiras – como empreendedorismo, meritocracia e liberdade.
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Jayke Luland
5.0 out of 5 stars Bleak, but striking
Reviewed in Australia on August 28, 2020
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Chul-Han has permanently recontextualised capitalism for me. With elegance and grace, he explains the metamorphosis that neoliberalism makes under the guise of positivity and buzz words, and how this permeates throughout our culture. Fans of Mark Fisher and Slavoj Zizek will love Byung Chul-Han.
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