Like a Sartre for the age of screens, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han “puts words to our prevailing condition of not-quite-hopeless digital despair,” Kyle Chayka writes. The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher. Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.

 

Like a Sartre for the age of screens, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han “puts words to our prevailing condition of not-quite-hopeless digital despair,” Kyle Chayka writes.

The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher.

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.