Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

by Byung-Chul Han

Because the number of things has proliferated, we do not realize that, in fact, things are disappearing.

Today’s world is fading away and becoming information, information as ghostly as those disembodied voices. Digitalization de-reifies and disembodies the world. It also abolishes memory. Instead of memory, we have vast quantities of data. In the place of the memory police, we have digital media, which does its job without violence and with little effort.