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Byung-Chul Han
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“Those who devote themselves to rituals must ignore themselves. Rituals produce a distance from the self, a self-transcendence.”
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“Every religious practice is an exercise in attention. A temple is the highest degree of attention.”
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“The 'intense life' advertised by the neoliberal regime is in truth simply a life of intense consumption.”
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“Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified.”
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“Today, tattoos lack symbolic power. All they do is point toward the uniqueness of the bearer. The body is neither a ritual stage nor a surface of projection; rather, it is an advertising space.”
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“Sabbath rest does not follow creation; it brings creation to completion.”
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“When we subordinate rest to work, we ignore the divine.”
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“Silent listening unites a people and creates community without communication.”
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“In contrast to festivals, events do not create community.”
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“Capitalism lacks narrativity.”
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“Capitalism dislikes silence.”
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“Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is threatening to a society that is organized around work and production.”
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“It is a sign of sovereignty to risk one's life, that is, to turn life into a game.”
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“Following Foucault, we may define the art of life as a practice of suicide, of giving oneself to death, of depsychologizing oneself, of playing.”
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“Today, to live means merely to produce.”
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“Poems are magic ceremonies of language.”
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“The liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist economy of the commodity.”
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“Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules.”
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“In the empire of signs, the soul, psychology, is erased. There is no soul to infect the holy seriousness of ritual play.”
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“It is not honourable to attack an enemy without putting yourself at risk.”
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“Thinking is more erotic than calculating.”
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“The pornographic body lacks any symbolism. The ritualized body, by contrast, is a splendid stage, with secrets and deities written into it.”
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“The freedom of the 'everyday mind' consists rather in not kneeling down in awe. Its mental attitude is better expressed as "sitting unmoveable like an object.”
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“Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things.”
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“...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence.”
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“God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'”
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“...I pray to God to make me free of God.”
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“At the deepest level, the desire for complete union with God exhibits a narcissistic structure.”
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“Zen Buddhism is inspired by a basic trust in the Here, a basic trust in the world.”
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“The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom.”
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“Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday.”
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“Emptiness empties the one seeing into what is seen.”
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“Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself.”
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“The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things.”
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“To die is to wander.”
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“When we resist impermanence, the self intensifies.”
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“Emptiness is not a denial of the proper but an affirmation of it.”
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“If life can no longer be narrated, wisdom deteriorates, and its place is taken by problem-solving.”
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“Stories on digital platforms like Facebook or Instagram are not genuine stories. They have no narrative duration. Rather, they are just sequences of momentary impressions that do not tell us anything.”
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“The smartphone seems to be a playground, but it is a digital panopticon.”
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“Without narration, life is purely additive.”
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“The reason that people take selfies is not narcissism. Rather, it is inner emptiness. There is no meaning to stabilize the ego. Faced with its inner emptiness, the ego constantly produces itself.”
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“A screen bans reality.”
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“Psychological disorders are symptoms of a blocked story... The patient is cured the moment she narrates herself free.”
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