Notes on “Psychopolitics” by Byung-Chul Han.
~ Neoliberalism and new technologies of power. ~
The self is now deemed free of external limitations. The self now subjugates itself with internal limitations, those determined by the new technologies of power.
Han’s dark critique starts to crack open near the end of the book, with sillyness, stillness and idiotism.
So it’s not a fine answer to find <3. Narrative making, story making, he describes as a vertical tension. Holding the character in place. What is our own language that exists only to itself? Not always must we see the patterns and relate our experience to a specific knowledge system of reason
“Only the idiot has access to a wholly other.”