Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on
the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life,
multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of
convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to
attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder.
Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to
manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive
positivity and the universal availability of people and goods.
Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social
and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every
against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he
draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural
sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent
intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.
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