Han Byung - Chul (Professor Universitat Der Kunste Berlin)
Han Byung - Chul (Professor Universitat Der Kunste Berlin) - Topology Of Violence - Paperback
Han Byung - Chul (Professor Universitat Der Kunste Berlin) - Topology Of Violence - Paperback
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Description: One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear violence for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence the philosopher Byung - Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible from the frontal to the viral to the self - inflicted from brute force to mediated force from the real to the virtual. Violence Han tells us has gone from the negative explosive massive and martial to the positive wielded without enmity or domination. This he says creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized desubjectified systemic violence conceals itself because it has become one with society. Han first investigates the macro - physical manifestations of violence which take the form of negativity developing from the tension between self and other interior and exterior friend and enemy. These manifestations include the archaic violence of sacrifice and blood the mythical violence of jealous and vengeful gods the deadly violence of the sovereign the merciless violence of torture the bloodless violence of the gas chamber the viral violence of terrorism and the verbal violence of hurtful language. He then examines the violence of positivity the expression of an excess of positivity which manifests itself as over - achievement over - production over - communication hyper - attention and hyperactivity. The violence of positivity Han warns could be even more disastrous than that of negativity. Infection invasion and infiltration have given way to infarction.
Title: Topology Of Violence
Author(s): Han Byung - Chul (Professor Universitat Der Kunste Berlin)
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262534956
Pages: 168 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/20/2018
Series: Topology of Violence
Category: Violence In Society
Description: One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear violence for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence the philosopher Byung - Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible from the frontal to the viral to the self - inflicted from brute force to mediated force from the real to the virtual. Violence Han tells us has gone from the negative explosive massive and martial to the positive wielded without enmity or domination. This he says creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized desubjectified systemic violence conceals itself because it has become one with society. Han first investigates the macro - physical manifestations of violence which take the form of negativity developing from the tension between self and other interior and exterior friend and enemy. These manifestations include the archaic violence of sacrifice and blood the mythical violence of jealous and vengeful gods the deadly violence of the sovereign the merciless violence of torture the bloodless violence of the gas chamber the viral violence of terrorism and the verbal violence of hurtful language. He then examines the violence of positivity the expression of an excess of positivity which manifests itself as over - achievement over - production over - communication hyper - attention and hyperactivity. The violence of positivity Han warns could be even more disastrous than that of negativity. Infection invasion and infiltration have given way to infarction.
Title: Topology Of Violence
Author(s): Han Byung - Chul (Professor Universitat Der Kunste Berlin)
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262534956
Pages: 168 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/20/2018
Series: Topology of Violence
Category: Violence In Society
