The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening
to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and
disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics.
Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with
bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into
infocracy. In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy
is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary information
capitalism. Whereas the disciplinary regime of industrial
capitalism worked with compulsion and repression, this new
information regime exploits freedom instead of repressing it.
Surveillance and punishment give way to motivation and
optimization: we imagine that we are free, but in reality our
entire lives are recorded so that our behaviour might be
psychopolitically controlled. Under the neoliberal information
regime, mechanisms of power function not because people are aware
of the fact of constant surveillance but because they perceive
themselves to be free. This trenchant critique of politics in the
information age will be of great interest to students and scholars
in the humanities and social sciences and to anyone concerned about
the fate of politics in our time.
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