Study 36: The Aesthetics of Endurance: Byung-Chul Han and the Rise of Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art

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We live in a world designed to be frictionless, yet we have never felt more exhausted. The endless scroll and the seamless object promise positivity but deliver a profound psychic fatigue: a condition philosopher Byung-Chul Han terms the "Burnout Society. " He argues that this pervasive "smoothness" has erased the difficulty, texture, and resistance essential for genuine meaning.

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