La società senza dolore Quotes

“También la paciencia y la espera como posturas espirituales se están erosionando hoy. Hacen accesible una realidad que hoy perdemos bajo la necesidad de hacerlo todo disponible.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“El mundo se vuelve transparente cuando es transformado en datos. Los algoritmos y la inteligencia artificial hacen transparente también la conducta humana, es decir, la hacen predecible y manejable.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“el aburrimiento no es otra cosa que la disolución del dolor en el tiempo.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“el fermento de la revolución es el dolor sentido en común. El dispositivo neoliberal de felicidad lo ataja de raíz. La sociedad paliativa despolitiza el dolor sometiéndolo a tratamiento medicinal y privatizándolo. De este modo se reprime y se desbanca la dimensión social del dolor.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“La exigencia de optimizar el alma, que en realidad la obliga a ajustarse a las relaciones de poder establecidas, oculta las injusticias sociales.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“la vida que rechaza todo dolor es una vida cosificada. Lo único que mantiene la vida con vida es «estar impresionado por lo otro».12 De lo contrario se queda apresada en el infierno de lo igual. 1”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad paliativa

“leads to the depoliticization of society and the disappearance of solidarity. Each person has to look after his or her own happiness. Happiness becomes a private matter. Suffering is understood to be the result of personal failure. Instead of revolution we thus get depression. Working on our own soul as best we can, we lose sight of the social relations that lead to social malformations. Tortured by fear and anxiety, we blame not society but ourselves. The catalyst for revolution, however, is shared pain. The neoliberal dispositif of happiness nips it in the bud. The palliative society depoliticizes pain by medicalizing and privatizing it. The social dimension of pain is thus suppressed and repressed. Chronic pain, a pathological phenomenon of the burnout society, does not give rise to protest. In the neoliberal society, tiredness is apolitical. It is a tiredness-of-the-I, a symptom of the overstretching of the narcissistic subject of performance. Tiredness isolates us instead of binding us together into a We. I-tiredness must be distinguished from We-tiredness, which is the product of a community. I-tiredness is the best defence against revolution.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Palliative Society: Pain Today

“It ensures that all are preoccupied with their own psyches rather than interested in critically questioning their social conditions. The suffering society creates is privatized and psychologized.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Palliative Society: Pain Today

“Surveillance also takes on a smart form. We are constantly asked to communicate our needs, wishes and preferences – to tell our life stories. Total communication, total surveillance, pornographic exposure and panoptic surveillance coincide. Freedom and surveillance become indistinguishable.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Palliative Society: Pain Today

“Be happy is the new formula of rule. The positivity of happiness pushes aside the negativity of pain. Happiness is employed as positive emotional capital to ensure that individuals possess a permanent capacity to perform. The neoliberal dispositif of happiness is highly efficient because the principles of self-motivation and self-optimization allow for almost effortless domination. The subjugated are not even aware of their subjugation. They think they are free. They exploit themselves, without the need for any external compulsion, and in doing so they believe that they are realizing themselves. Freedom is not curtailed but exploited. The appeal to ‘be free’ produces a compulsion that is far more devastating than the injunction ‘be obedient’.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Palliative Society: Pain Today

“The subjugated are not even aware of their subjugation. They think they are free. They exploit themselves, without the need for any external compulsion, and in doing so they believe that they are realizing themselves. Freedom is not curtailed but exploited. The appeal to ‘be free’ produces a compulsion that is far more devastating than the injunction ‘be obedient’.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Palliative Society: Pain Today

“Hayatta kalma histerisinin hakim olduğu toplum
bir ölememişler toplumudur.”
― Byung-Chul Han, La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite