Psychopolitics : neoliberalism and new technologies of power

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"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 fuelling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Dat...

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ISBN:

9781784785772 (paperback)
9781784785772
9781784785765
1784785768

Description:

87 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Neoliberalism and new technologies of power

Notes:

Publisher, pagination, and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references
Translated from the German

Contents:

The crisis of freedom
Smart power
The mole and the snake
Biopolitics
Foucault's dilemma
Healing as killing
Shock
Friendly Big Brother
Emotional capitalism
Gamification
Big data
Beyond the subject
Idiotism

LCCN:

2017039801

Control Number:

3347966

Other Authors:

Butler, Erik, 1971- translator
translation of: Han, Byung-Chul. Psychopolitik. English

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