Hungry Ghosts of the Attention Economy
We are tired. About this much, perhaps, most of us can agree. Still, there is far less consensus about the cause of our collective exhaustion. Is it overwork? An impending sense of political catastrophe and apocalypse? A broad-scale mental health crisis? Or is there something else at work? For the South Korean–born, German-schooled philosopher Byung-Chul Han, the fundamental source of […]