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EPISODE · Feb 17, 2023 · 41 MIN

Byung Chul Han - Boredom and Multitasking

from Critical Media Studies

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Byung Chul Han’s “The Burnout Society” with an eye to his discussion of multitasking and the loss of what Han calls “profound boredom.”  The discussion invokes Bernard Steigler’s concept of noesis and Jauques Eleul’s concept of technique as a means of better understanding the spaces of focus and attention in the modern world. 

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