Psychopolitics

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Byung-Chul Han. Psychopolitics

Verso Futures

Psychopolitics. Neoliberalism and NewTechnologies of Power. Byung-Chul Han. Translated by Erik Butler

Contents

1. The Crisis of Freedom

2. Smart Power

3. The Mole and the Snake

4. Biopolitics

5. Foucault’s Dilemma

6. Healing as Killing

7. Shock

8. Friendly Big Brother

9. Emotional Capitalism

10. Gamification

11. Big Data

12. Beyond the Subject

13. Idiotism

Notes

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The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy.

– Theodor Adorno

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The neoliberal regime transforms allo-exploitation into auto-exploitation; this process affects all ‘classes’. Such classless self-exploitation – which was something utterly unknown to Marx – renders impossible any social revolution based on the difference between the exploiters, on the one hand, and the exploited, on the other. Indeed, given the auto-exploiting achievement-subject’s isolation, no political We is even possible that could rise up and undertake collective action.

People who fail in the neoliberal achievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system. Herein lies the particular intelligence defining the neoliberal regime: no resistance to the system can emerge in the first place. In contrast, when allo-exploitation prevails, the exploited are still able to show solidarity and unite against those who exploit them. Such is the logic on which Marx’s idea of a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is based. However, this vision presupposes that relations of repression and domination hold. Now, under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression.

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