Byung-Chul Han - Hyperculture

1 Cover

2 Title Page Hyperculture Culture and Globalization Byung-Chul Han Translated by Daniel Steuer polity

3 Copyright Originally published in German as Hyperkulturalität: Kultur und Globalisierung © Merve Verlag, 2005 This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Am Felsfenster morgens (und andere Ortszeiten 1982–1987) © Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2019 Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Phantasien der Wiederholung © Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1983. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag. Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4618-3 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021942107 Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Phantasien der Wiederholung. © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1983. Alle Rechte bei und vorbehalten durch Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin. Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Am Felsfenster morgens (und andere Ortszeiten 1982–1987). © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2019. The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Epigraph But the fear of the new is often as strong as the fear of the void, even when the new is the overcoming of the void. That explains why the many only see absurd chaos where a new meaning seeks to introduce its order. Indeed, the old nomos is fading away, dragging the whole system of redundant standards, norms, and traditions with it in its fall. But what is coming is not therefore devoid of standards, is not a pure nothingness, inimical to any nomos. Even in the fiercest struggle between old and new forces just standards emerge and meaningful proportions form. Here, too, are gods that rule. Ample are their bounds. Carl Schmitt 1 Notes Notes 1 1. Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea, trans. Simona Draghici, Washington, DC: Plutarch Press, 1997, p. 59 (transl. amended).

5 Tourist in a Hawaiian Shirt Tourist in a Hawaiian Shirt Where do you want to go today? Microsoft The British ethnologist Nigel Barley once expressed the suspicion that ‘the true key to the future’ was ‘that fundamental concepts such as culture will cease to exist’. We are all, Barley said, ‘more or less tourists in Hawaiian shirts’. 1 After the end of culture, should the new human being simply be called ‘tourist’? Or are we at long last living in a culture that affords us the freedom to spread into the wide open world? If we are, how might we describe this new culture? Notes Notes 1 1. See Der Spiegel, 44/2000.

6 Culture as Home Notes

7 Hypertext and Hyperculture Notes

8 The Eros of Interconnectedness Notes

9 Fusion Food Notes

10 Hybrid Culture Notes

11 The Hyphenization of Culture Notes

12 The Age of Comparison Notes

13 The De-Auratization of Culture Notes

14 Pilgrims and Tourists Notes

15 Windows and Monads Notes

16 Odradek Notes

17 Hypercultural Identity Notes

18 Interculturality, Multiculturality and Transculturality Notes

19 Appropriation

20 On Lasting Peace Notes

21 Culture of Friendliness Notes

22 Hyperlogue Notes

23 The Wanderer Notes

24 Threshold Notes

25 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Epigraph

6 Begin Reading

7 End User License Agreement

1 iii

2 iv

3 vii

4 1

5 2

6 3

7 4

8 5

9 6

10 7

11 8

12 9

13 10

14 11

15 12

16 13

17 14

18 15

19 16

20 17

21 18

22 19

23 20

24 21

25 22

26 23

27 24

28 25

29 26

30 27

31 28

32 29

33 30

34 31

35 32

36 33

37 34

38 35

39 36

40 37

41 38

42 39

43 40

44 41

45 42

46 43

47 44

48 45

49 46

50 47

51 48

52 49

53 50

54 51

55 52

56 53

57 54

58 55

59 56

60 57

61 58

62 59

63 60

64 61

65 62

66 63

67 64

68 65

69 66

70 67

71 68

72 69

73 70

74 71

75 72

76 73

77 74

78 75

79 76

80 77

81 78

82 79

83 80

84 81

85 82

86 83

87 99

Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Daniel Steuer

polity

Originally published in German as Hyperkulturalität: Kultur und Globalisierung © Merve Verlag, 2005

This English edition © Polity Press, 2022

Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Am Felsfenster morgens (und andere Ortszeiten 1982–1987) © Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2019

Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Phantasien der Wiederholung © Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1983. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag.

Polity Press

65 Bridge Street

Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK

Polity Press

101 Station Landing

Suite 300

Medford, MA 02155, USA

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4618-3

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021942107

Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Phantasien der Wiederholung. © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main

1983. Alle Rechte bei und vorbehalten durch Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin.

Excerpt from: Peter Handke, Am Felsfenster morgens (und andere Ortszeiten 1982–1987).

© Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2019.

The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.

Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.

For further information on Polity, visit our website:

politybooks.com

But the fear of the new is often as strong as the fear of the void, even when the new is the overcoming of the void. That explains why the many only see absurd chaos where a new meaning seeks to introduce its order. Indeed, the old nomos is fading away, dragging the whole system of redundant standards, norms, and traditions with it in its fall. But what is coming is not therefore devoid of standards, is not a pure nothingness, inimical to any nomos. Even in the fiercest struggle between old and new forces just standards emerge and meaningful proportions form.