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Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld by Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which ...Show more
Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind o ...Show more
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering by Byung-Chul Han
$28.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a ...Show more
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