Tag: byung-chul han
-
Day 323 of 1000: The Vita Negativa
Taleb says “knowlege grows by subtraction.” Expanding upon this to a sovereign lifestyle of saying no to the achievement society.
-
Day 301 of 1000: Hope and the Other
Imagining resolutions to our current fourth turning crisis. Calling on hope, faith, and love.
-
Day 295 of 1000: Everydayness vs. Festiveness
Byung-Chul Han on Heidegger’s concept of everydayness, and how it should be complemented with festiveness.
-
Day 274 of 1000: Cultivating the Excluding Instinct
Learning to exclude crowding and intrusive stimuli so as to live the vita contemplativa. Ideas from Han and Nietzsche.
-
Day 273 of 1000: The Can-Do Society and Depression
Considering philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s diagnosis of the cause of depression and other mental illnesses, from The Burnout Society.
-
Day 272 of 1000: The Inspiration Society
Instead of the achievement society, how about participating in the inspiration society? How The Fool Tarot card got me thinking of a different way of living.
-
Day 263 of 1000: Hope, Truth, and Art
Adorno and Han on the relationship between reality, hope, truth, and art. Art as an autonomous sphere that provides an alternative to bad reality.
-
Day 261 of 1000: Hopefulness and concrete Goals
Nietzsche and Han on how hope turns our thoughts to concrete goals as a way of composing the story of the future.
-
Day 257 of 1000: Searching for Bohemia by the Sea
An Ingeborg Bachmann poem, Han on the “and yet” of hope beyond despair, and losing my own Bohemia by the sea.
-
Day 254 of 1000: Reason vs. Hope – Spinoza vs. Han
Early modern philosopher Spinoza said if you live according to reason, you need not depend on Hope. Byung-Chul Han says hope takes you places that reason cannot.
-
Day 253 of 1000: The Neoliberal Creative Dispositif
Byung-Chul Han’s neoliberal creative dispositif in which acts of creativity respond to the achievement society’s demands.
-
Day 252 of 1000: Finding Hopefulness
Pondering how uncertain I feel as I attempt to reinvent myself. Considering ideas from Byung-Chul Han’s The Spirit of Hope.
-
Day 218 of 1000: The emptiness of success
Inspired by the Two of Wands, musings on goal setting, achievement, and dissatisfaction. With an appearance by Schopenhauer.
-
Day 208 of 1000: Seeking boredom in 2026
Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.
-
Day 201 of 1000: Seeking the unself
The need to overcome the ego: ideas from Iris Murdoch and Byung-Chul Han.
-
Day 195 of 1000: Human imperfection in art and writing
Human art and writing represents one human consciousness communicating with others. Often imperfect, it lacks the smoothness that AI-generated work does.
-
Day 179 of 1000: writing from interest not deprivation
Writing, and creating in general, from interest curiosity not a sense of deprivation or needing to make money.
-
DAy 155 of 1000: Seeking releasement
On Eckhart and Heidegger’s concepts of releasement, and what it means in an extremely online era. How recklessness relates to releasement.
-
DAy 154 of 1000: Finding your equivalent vs experiencing the other
A redditor posts that she wants to find her equivalent. I propose that she’s going about seeking romance wrong.
-
Day 145 of 1000: Iris Murdoch on imagination vs. fantasy in love
What Iris Murdoch might say about the modern dating advice “don’t settle.” On fantasy vs imagination in love.
-
Day 137 of 1000: The aesthetic life vs the ethical life
Kierkegaard’s aesthetic life vs ethical life. Applying the concept to the movie High Fidelity.
-
Day 123 of 1000: World construction from the point of view of two
Quotes and thoughts from Alain Badiou’s In Praise of Love. A report of how world construction when you’re in love takes place.
-
Day 98 of 1000: Eros and the Other
A discussion of Byung-Chul Han’s The Agony of Eros. What an erotic (Other-acknowledging) relationship vs narcissistic (self-affirming) relationship might look like.
-
Day 94 of 1000: Experiencing the Other in Relationship
Last week, I underwent a major shift in my perspective on my life. This week, I hope to make some more sense of it, with philosophical study.
-
Day 93 of 1000: Finding meaning In the achievement society
Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.