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Pill Pod 27 - BURNOUT SOCIETY by Byung-Chul Han *UNLOCKED*

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Bartleby and the Scrivener

Chulhan: What makes Bartleby sick is not excessive positivity or possibility he's not burdened by the late modern imperative of letting his self flourish. Ahab was consumed by passion for something whereas Bartleby just preferred not to do anything including eating at the end so he starts to death. And there's another thing we didn't mention is that in this burnout society the eye goes to being a project. You are a project that you work on right and you have to build yourself into a successful human being. But he says Bartleby does not fail in the project of being an eye monotonous copying leaves no free space in which private initiative would prove necessary or

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