The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher | The New Yorker

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 20 Jun 2024 02:34:06 UTC All snapshots from host www.newyorker.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuse Skip to main content Newsletter Search The Latest News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Puzzles & Games Video Podcasts Goings On Shop Infinite Scroll The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age. By Kyle Chayka April 17, 2024 Photograph by Alberto Cristofari / Contasto / Redux “The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark,” James Salter wrote in his 1975 novel, “Light Years.” An encounter with a single “slender” line of writing, as he put it, can send a reader spinning off on a new trajectory; her life becomes divided into a before and an after the moment of reading. For Kevin Maret, an undergraduate art

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