>“Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft]. Also, its inhabitants are no longer “obedience-subjects” but “achievement-subjects.” They are entrepreneurs of themselves.”>“In fact, Nietzsche would say that that human type in the process of becoming reality en masse is no sovereign superman but “the last man,” who does nothing but work. The new human type, standing exposed to excessive positivity without any defense, lacks all sovereignty. The depressive human being is an animal laborans that exploits itself—and it does so voluntarily, without external constraints. It is predator and prey at once.”Byung-Chul Han is a prophet of the modern age. All who aspire to NEETdom should read Burnout Society
No idea who he is but he isn't saying anything new, he is just acting like it is new by saying 21st century, but maybe he is a zoomer and thinks John Hughes movies are an accurate portrayal of the 20th century.
>unsubstantiated observations and predictions about ultra-complex global phenomena and trendsI hate writers so much
>>25268283some korean who larp as german -literally claimed that hes a german- and every once in a while there are this shill or schizo who bake a thread about that guy opinion that is none other than *suprise surprise* useless fun fact about how life is sucks and everything is crumbling down together (who could have seen that coming)
>>25268273If this moron wnts to see the factory floors again he can go back to his gook countries in vietnam, china, korea, laos etc. and he will see the west simply exported “foucaults” land to these brown masses. Sorry you didnt win the 21st century but we did. Dont forget to pay back that IMF loan or meet your ILO reports.
he should read the manifesto
>>25268273Dude has no original thought. Every single book (literally just a collection of essays published elsewhere then collated into a book) reads as a secondary/tertiary summary of philosophers he hardly understands. At least Fisher has Capitalist Realism, Han has nothing.
>>25269008>>25268283>No idea who he is but he isn't saying anything new>Dude has no original thoughtCurious how no one points to the "obvious" examples ever
Reading Nietzsche and works of other great men of that age makes me realize how crude and childish these post-modern authors' proses are
>>25268273>HECKIN SHOPPING MALLS... HECKIN CONSOOMERISM AND WORKAHOLICS!!!Reads like the deep thoughts I jotted down in my journal at 17, lmao
>>25269098>labor is exploited by itselfHahahahaha
>>252690132/3 of the meme trilogy deal with the things in OP.
>>25268273Yeah, and how's that gonna help me? Sounds like I'll die just as ugly and alone after reading it.
>>25268273Whole lotta words to say a whole lotta nuthin'
>>25268292>bake a threadHelIo reddit
>>25268273>but rather an achievement societylol, lmao even. To describe the age of DEI quotas, participation trophies for everyone, massive hedonism and parasitism as achievement society is truly inane. The fact that he's supposedly talking about Goymany really puts the cherry on top.
we live in a very strange and contradictory "last man" society. the last men want to be last men, but they also hate it and elect retards like trump so he can larp as a kingly savior figure and they can erect statues calling him a Great Man. and then when they see another society reject being the last men like iran or china they launch wars to ensure they become last men consumer units like we are
>>25268273Continental is word salad gibberish. You can say the same about any time period and metaphor your way into these hollow pseudo insights. Anyone above 120IQ can do that. It's not impressive. Though I'm not a logical positivist but I'd rather shuffle through their crap than suffer through these hollow neo jungians.
>>25268273>Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories.What? This seems so confused, like he's conflating Foucault's early work with Discipline and Punish. And since when have hospitals and prisons been replaced?>Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft].It's also like he didn't understand what Foucault was saying on a basic level with Discipline and Punish. It's as if he not only didn't read Foucault, but he didn't even read, say, a wiki-tier summary of him, he just looked at the headings of a wiki and assumed he knew what they meant.
>>25269098Huh I don't remember him saying or writing that. What's the exact source of that quote?
>>25271260It's in "Brappers and Philosophers: Heideggerian ontic Praxis as transitory hyper-olfaction", page 12
>>25268296That's real funny the industrial economies of the developing world are the only countries seeming to enjoy real upward mobility and a healthy middle class meanwhile all the scam service economies feature hyper-polarized wealth distribution, declining quality of life, decaying infrastructure, and massive infusions of economic migrants i.e. shitskin scabs
>>25271259>It's as if he not only didn't read Foucault, but he didn't even read, say, a wiki-tier summary of him, he just looked at the headings of a wiki and assumed he knew what they meant.It's always been pop-philosophy with him, kind of a deepity signaling for wine-sniffers who like their dose of comfy cultural pessimism, but no analysis at all
