{"product_id":"psycho-politics-by-byung-chul-han","title":"'Psycho-politics' by Byung-Chul Han","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"638\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eOne of Byung-Chul Han's most widely read books, \u003cem data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"150\"\u003ePsychopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e extends themes first explored in \u003cem data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"205\"\u003eThe Burnout Society\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"236\"\u003eThe Transparency Society\u003c\/em\u003e, arguing that power in the twenty-first century no longer operates primarily through repression or discipline but through freedom itself.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"638\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eWhere 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.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1519\"\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1546\" data-end=\"1641\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Verso paperback. Very good condition with light shelf wear and a clean, unmarked interior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45754324516947,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/bringdogs_babies_grandparents_32.png?v=1782879772","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/psycho-politics-by-byung-chul-han","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}