One of Byung-Chul Han's most widely read books, Psychopolitics extends themes first explored in The Burnout Society and The Transparency Society, arguing that power in the twenty-first century no longer operates primarily through repression or discipline but through freedom itself.

Where earlier societies relied on prohibition and external control, neoliberalism encourages individuals to become entrepreneurs of themselves—optimising, monitoring and exploiting their own lives in the name of productivity, authenticity and personal fulfilment.

Drawing on thinkers including Foucault, Marx, Deleuze and Heidegger while writing in an unusually compressed, aphoristic style, Han examines big data, self-tracking, emotional capitalism, gamification, digital labour and the attention economy. Rather than seeing smartphones and social media as neutral technologies, he argues they form a political infrastructure that reshapes subjectivity itself, producing forms of voluntary self-surveillance that are ultimately more effective than coercion. The result is a concise but provocative intervention into debates about technology, capitalism and contemporary forms of domination. While some critics have found Han's sweeping diagnoses reductive, his work has become enormously influential across philosophy, media theory and cultural criticism, particularly among readers interested in digital life after Foucault and Mark Fisher.

2017 Verso paperback. Very good condition with light shelf wear and a clean, unmarked interior.