What is it about?
A review essay of Byung-Chul Han's 2017 work, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power.
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Why is it important?
Byung-Chul Han's critical notion of "psychopolitics" serves as a crucial intervention to theorize our present time and displays a thinker’s response-ability to moments of political crises. With flitting political changes taking place in our world these days, the stakes of this book project are easily discernible. From its polemical discourse to its provocative insights, the book itself can be seen as an effort of performative theorization to chase time before the world turns into a dystopian science fiction beyond our comprehension. By inquiring into how power functions today, the book begs the question, “What makes theory matter today?”
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This page is a summary of: Psychopolitics: Theorization against Crisis, symplokē, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0517.
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