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Byung-Chul Han
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“Violence and freedom are the two endpoints on the scale of power.”
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“The task of power is to transform the always possible 'no' into a 'yes.'”
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“Power is not opposed to freedom. It is precisely freedom that distinguishes power from violence or coercion.”
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“A truly powerful holder of power does not simply elicit agreement, but enthusiasm and excitement.”
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“Often what is absent has more power than what is present.”
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“When power is separated from any communicative context, it becomes naked violence.”
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“Power is more 'spacious' than violence. And violence becomes power if it 'gives itself more time.' Looked at from this perspective, power rests on an excess of space and time.”
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“Architecture is a way for power to achieve eloquence through form.”
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“Rather, power is most powerful, most stable, where it creates a feeling of freedom and where it does not need to resort to violence.”
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“Power is never naked. Rather, it is eloquent.”
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“An absolute power would be one that never becomes apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying. Power shines in its own absence.”
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“Power turns pure being into a having.”
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“Violence may capture space, but it does not create space.”
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“Power tends to reduce openness... Power tries to solidify and stabilize its position by eradicating spaces open to play, or incalculable spaces.”
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“An ethos of freedom stops power from solidifying into domination and makes sure it remains an open game.”
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“Perhaps power is never free from a feeling of lack.”
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“If life is deprived of any meaningful closure, it will be ended in non-time.”
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“God functions like a stabilizer of time.”
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“A farewell does not dilute the presence of the past; it may make an even deeper presence.”
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“If things are deprived of memory, they become information or commodities. They are pushed into a time-free, ahistorical place.”
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“Promising, committment, and fidelity, for instance, are genuinely temporal practices.”
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“The haste of day rules over the night as empty form.”
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“Full of gods means full of meaning, full of narration. The world becomes readable, like a picture.”
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“Historical time knows no lasting present.”
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“Information has no scent.”
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“Time begins to emit a scent when it gains duration; when it is given a narrative or deep tension; when it gains depth and breadth, even space.”
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“Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellshaft].”
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“Disciplinary society is still governed by no. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement society creates depressives and losers.”
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“However, the disappearance of domination does not entail freedom. Instead, it makes freedom and constraint coincide. Thus, the achievement-subject gives itself over to compulsive freedom--that is, to the free constraint of maximizing achievement. Excess work and performance escalate into auto-exploitation.”
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“Depression is a narcissistic malady.”
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“Eros and depression are opposites.”
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“Eros, erotic desire, conquers depression. It delivers us from the inferno of the same to the utopia, indeed utopia, of the wholly other.”
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“Catastrophic fatality abruptly switches over into salvation.”
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“Eros conquers depression.”
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“Whatever is merely positive is lifeless. Negativity is essential to vitality.”
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“Happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity.”
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“What is obscene about pornography is not an excess of sex, but the fact that it contains no sex at all.”
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“The pornographic face says nothing. It has no expressivity or mystery.”
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“The erotic is never free of secrecy.”
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“Pornography completes the deritualization of love.”
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“The inner music of things sounds only when you close your eyes.”
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“Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same.”
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“The eros-driven soul produces beautiful things, and, above all, beautiful actions, which have a universal value.”
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“There is no such thing as data-driven thinking.”
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“Thinking is an expedition into quietness.”
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“Logos is powerless without the force of eros.”
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“Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails.”
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“We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transforming being at home to being in the world. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space. They render time habitable.”
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“Ritual practices ensure that we treat not only other people but also things in beautiful ways, that there is an affinity between us and other people as well as things.”
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“*Rituals are also symbolic practices... in the sense that they bring people together to create an alliance, a wholeness, a community.”
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