Byung-Chul Han: In the Swarm

TREY’s book “Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity”: amzn.to/3hzxZAR
WE make at least 3 videos a week on Patreon discussing everything from philosophy, to theology, to biblical typology, to music, and to whatever else comes to my head. / telosbound
TELOSBOUND THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION: docs.google.com/document/d/1g...
THEOSBOUND: / theosbound
DISCORD: / discord
INSTAGRAM: / telosbound
ODYSSEY: odysee.com/@telosbound:c
GET The Philosopher's Notebook amzn.to/3h7Iyrn
HASHTAGS:
#philosophy #theology #metaphysics #ontology #orthodox #christianity #orthodoxchristianity #communion #church #jesus #christ #catholic #bible #hegel #negation #dialectics #epistemology #psychoanalysis #logic #ethics #theory #socialtheory #apologetics #God #aphesis #subjectivity #paradox #contradiction #reading #books #intellectual #politics #conservative #politicaltheory #sigma
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 The Crowd vs the Swarm
5:31 Loving vs Liking (Negative vs Positive)
7:48 Thinking vs Calculation
11:33 Psychopolitics
14:28 Conclusion

[@Gabriel-im5zr]

Thanks for this. Han is super underrated.

[@user-xz6cb3iz8s]

When narration suddenly turns from a description of the horror of modern egotistical self-tyranny to “like and subscribe” at the end of this video - I felt the deepest paralysing horror in a long time) Excellent job)))

[@justinanderson617callme]

Haha!!!

[@Noelciaaa]

I'm so floored by this video, wow. So many priceless insights presenterd in such succinct manner. Most channels would only convert a quarter of it in an over hour long video essay. I wanted to quote a few things from while sharing it, in order to entice others to watch it... But there are honestly so many great points, that it's a bit difficult to pick. It's such a wonderful and comprehensive description of how this digital age has morphed our culture and our individual psychology. Thank you so much for this!

[@mashaalbakhtiar]

I recently read several books by byung chul han. He is one of my favourite contemporary philosophers at the moment. I Loved this analysis. It was very helpful in understanding the text. Thank you. Please continue to make more videos of other books by byung chul han as well.

[@greytoeimp]

I found myself thinking of Riddler’s “swarm” at the end of The Batman. Ofc they are just mass shooters writ large but we can perhaps better understand the shooter phenomenon by seeing them in this way. They are a group of frustrated disconnected individuals. The multiplicity or numerous quality is actually an illusion; they are all the same person, duplicated and agglomerated by the internet.

[@analysisonlight605]

I have read some of Han's books, but I have never understood what he was saying on the level that you have explained it. Thank you so much for making this video.

[@2MrTenebris]

Amazing video!!!!!! What an amazing author, I already had my suspicions about the problems with the digital age. But this video only confirms them and makes me even more cautious. I’m going to try and limit my consumption of social media even more now. Except for your channel and channels like yours.

[@stavisince9595]

Thanks for your videos! They helped me at Uni. My professor assigned In the Swarm

[@Knaeben]

Thank you for making content about this important philosopher.

[@JD-ZagaDude99]

Well done. I’ve just learned about Han recently and found this video very informative.

[@ShawnStack1]

wonderful. Thanks for sharing this.

[@darlenebennet9822]

This was an excellent and insightful video.

[@bodeutscher2413]

I’m definitely going to read this author after this video. Thanks for putting this together!

[@jdspainhour]

Dude-how did I just find your channel?? 🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

I was not familiar with this distinction between “swarm” and “mass”-that’s really interesting. “Swam” has no soul…dang…This video was also excellent, and there were countless amazing points, from how journalists are now in “the way” of the immediacy of information, how our “being” today is basically fated for exhaustion, and the amazing point that because we cannot be a “mass” today, we cannot make any real political change, and so the “swam” spends all its time attacking individuals, which is far easier and more entertaining. Amazing. If you get a chance, you might enjoy the work of Raymond K Hessel: he is excellent on Psycho Politics, and has a few reflections on Han himself.

[@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

@@telosbound Anytime, my friend, and as always your content is a gift.

[@edwardkwan4916]

Han is my prophet-philosopher. Thx

[@justinanderson617callme]

This is great stuff , hidden gem .

[@eileenkenny9202]

The tragedy of modern man is that his intelligence, his spirituality and his contemplative independence have been inoexorably throttled by his own superego which has sold itself without compromise to technology. If the prophets, poets and priest foresakes the vestiges of wisdom for the empty headed crowing of advertisers and engineers of opinion, then there is nothing left for mankind but total insanity. Thomas Merton.

[@LONDONFIELDS2001]

wonderful video. han i suspect is teh philosopher we need right now

[@dialmformowgli]

♡

[@jamescareyyatesIII]

I've never heard a defense of the crowd.

[@johnbizzlehart2669]

Interesting

[@johnbizzlehart2669]

Back to the individual I guess.

[@pereda37]

Has anyone read the coming insurrection by the invisible committee? I see a lot of similar topics on that.

[@johnbizzlehart2669]

Where is the objectivity of the swarm?

[@michaelsteven1090]

All this thinking yet no answers to the impending doom from it..

[@johnnytass2111]

The answer was revealed around 2000 years ago.

[@jdspainhour]

Schmidtstorm the shitstorms 🤫

[@9000ck]

i wonder what big data thinks about byung chul han.

[@Mund_joker1291]

Algorithm

[@joesummer]

The hive mind ,mob mentality