The Crisis of Narration - Byung-Chul Han EssaysLanguageWriting from nervous impulses

from nervous impulses

citizen in Canton

Label - Sublime Frequencies

" "Thanatos

Remnants of rural civilisation and traces of urban expansion are embedded among the first signs of de-industrialisation

The Crisis of Narration - Byung-Chul Han EssaysLanguageWriting from nervous impulsesPRE ORDER Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate