Continue reading “COVID-19 and Temporality”“The time is out of joint”: time is disarticulated, dis-
located, dislodged, time is run down, on the run and run down
[traque et detraque], deranged, both out of order and mad. Time is
off its hinges, time is off course, besides itself, disadjusted.Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida; 2006; p.20.
In his book Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power, the German philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues, that the new surveillance society that has arisen since 1984 is more “elegantly totalitarian and oppressive than anything described by Orwell or Bentham”. According to him, the neoliberal era made capitalism realise that seduction is a better way of dealing with its subjects than toughness. He calls this “smart politics”. I would call it seductive politics and understood it as an exterior and distinct feature of his concept of psychopolitics.
Continue reading “Onanistic Subject’s Death”