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The Burnout Society (Unabridged)
- Author
- Cooltura Cooltura
- Narrator
- AI Synthetic Male
- Publisher
- Cooltura
- Publish Date
- 6 March 2026
- Run Time
- 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Psychology
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- Author
- Cooltura Cooltura
- Narrator
- AI Synthetic Male
- Duration
- 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 March 2026
- ISBN
- 4066004909400
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Cooltura
- Genre
- Psychology
Synopsis
In his book "The Burnout Society," Byung-Chul Han presents the paradigm shift that has led humanity from a disciplinary society to a performance society. From a repressive society, based on the negativity of prohibitions, to a hyperactive society, overflowing with stimuli and information, based on total positivity. The verb that defines the performance society is not "must" but "can"; modern man believes himself to be free, but paradoxically lives at war with himself. The performance society, Han says, engenders the endless pain of self-exhaustion.
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