Byung-Chul Han remarks on a lack of “bearing” – defined as a measured stance, reserve and posture – as what sets apart digitally-mediated protestations from formations mounted by a “we who are displaying concern for a society as a whole” (In the Swarm, MIT Press 2017, 7).Han calls “scandal society” the phenomenon particular to social […]

In the contest of who is more principled, more just, it’s as though the outcome really does determine or confirm, rather than serve as the alibi for, rights and entitlements won by brute force.Yet it’s difficult to say whether ‘brute-ness’ of this kind is to be identified as belonging to the ‘brute’ cognitive processes Jason […]