In this introductory video, Professor Ellie Anderson presents some of the ideas that contemporary Berlin-based philosopher Byung-Chul Han develops in The Burnout Society. Han asserts that Foucault's notion of a 'disciplinary society' has been replaced with an 'achievement-society' characterized by hyperattention, depression, and divisive tiredness.
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This video was created based on Professor Anderson's Continental Thought course at Pomona College and Pitzer College.
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