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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

by Byung-Chul Han

Power, data, and the psyche

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Power, data, and the psyche

Byung-Chul Han’s essay examines neoliberalism as a form of power that works through the psyche, setting this account against Foucault’s concept of biopower. The book connects that analysis to Big Data, emotion, and what Han presents as a contemporary crisis of freedom. It also outlines countermodels and alternatives, giving the argument both a critical and a propositional dimension. The result is a focused framework for considering how technological forms of domination relate to personal and political freedom.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary critiques of neoliberalism and political theory.
  • Those exploring the relationship between technology, Big Data, emotion, and power.
  • Readers seeking philosophical arguments about freedom and possible alternatives to existing systems.

Themes

Neoliberalism and powerPsychopolitics and the psycheBig Data and emotionFreedom and countermodels

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Book overview

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche

Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.
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