Byung-Chul Han — Questions and answers
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What is Byung-Chul Han's work mostly about?
Choices
- How great digital connection is for everyone.
- The hidden costs of always trying to succeed. ✓
- Only the history of South Korea.
- How society is completely free from any rules.
Answer: The hidden costs of always trying to succeed.
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What kind of society did Byung-Chul Han say we moved from?
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- An achievement society, where we always try our best.
- A disciplinary society, where there were lots of rules about 'must not'. ✓
- A happy society, with no problems at all.
- A freedom society, where everyone could do anything.
Answer: A disciplinary society, where there were lots of rules about 'must not'.
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According to Byung-Chul Han, what is 'burnout' a signature problem of?
Choices
- Having a happy and relaxed life.
- The achievement society. ✓
- Only individual tiredness from too much exercise.
- Getting too much sleep every day.
Answer: The achievement society.
From page 4
What is 'psychopolitics' according to Byung-Chul Han?
Choices
- A type of government that makes everyone happy and equal.
- A power that uses force to make people obey the rules.
- A power that subtly influences and controls people's minds using data and algorithms. ✓
- A game where you try to guess what others are thinking.
Answer: A power that subtly influences and controls people's minds using data and algorithms.
From page 5
What does 'absence of Otherness' mean in Han's philosophy?
Choices
- Being around many different kinds of people all the time.
- Not truly meeting or understanding things or people that are different from us. ✓
- Having too many choices when you are online.
- Only talking to people who are exactly like you.
Answer: Not truly meeting or understanding things or people that are different from us.
From page 7
What does Han's work challenge us to think about?
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- If we should connect to the internet even more often.
- If always being connected and achieving things truly makes our lives better or worse. ✓
- If we should work much harder than we already do.
- If the digital age is always perfect and has no problems.
Answer: If always being connected and achieving things truly makes our lives better or worse.
From page 9
What do Han's insights help us understand and achieve?
Choices
- How to always achieve more goals and tasks.
- How to completely ignore our inner feelings and thoughts.
- How to see the demands of the 'achievement society' and find real freedom. ✓
- How to use technology all the time without any breaks.
Answer: How to see the demands of the 'achievement society' and find real freedom.
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