Psychopolitics

Byung-Chul Han

Publication Year 2014
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Notes Yet another genius sequence of words from Byung-Chul. Psychopolitics is the current version of capitalism, inasmuch as that it is the psyche that is controlled (and subjugated) with today's politics. Current ideology doesn't have to force us into hard work—we force ourselves because we aim for such kind of work related achievement. Psychopolitics exists in contrast to Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics and biopower. > “Not long ago, a highly unusual incident in Greece was reported. It was all the more unusual for occurring in a country suffering so greatly under the yoke of Capital. The event possesses a singularly emblematic quality – so much so that it seems like a sign from the future. Children, it is said, found a large bundle of banknotes in the ruins of a house. They made use of them in a wholly other way: playing with them and tearing them to shreds. Perhaps these children anticipated a future we will share: the world lies in rubble; in the ruins, we are playing too – tearing apart paper money.”