02753ctm a22004095i 4500 22415128 PUCPR 20241114140555.0 a||||gr|||| 00| 0 ta 220207s2022 mau 000 0 eng 2022932415 9781509552986 (paperback) DLC eng rda DLC eng ger pcc BEV 23 303.4833 23 303.4833 Han, Byung-Chul, 1959- author 299709 Infocracy : digitalization and the crisis of democracy / Byung-Chul Han; translated by Daniel Steuer. Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2022. 66 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Originally published in german as Infokratie. Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie. Includes bibliographical references. The Information Regime. -- Infocracy. -- The End of Communicative Action. -- Digital Rationality. -- The Crisis of Truth. -- Notes. The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy. In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary information capitalism. Whereas the disciplinary regime of industrial capitalism worked with compulsion and repression, this new information regime exploits freedom instead of repressing it. Surveillance and punishment give way to motivation and optimization: we imagine that we are free, but in reality our entire lives are recorded so that our behaviour might be psychopolitically controlled. Under the neoliberal information regime, mechanisms of power function not because people are aware of the fact of constant surveillance but because they perceive themselves to be free. This trenchant critique of politics in the information age will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences and to anyone concerned about the fate of politics in our time. Provided by publisher. 114621 Information society Democracy 114605 Information resources Social aspects Information policy 114604 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc 6 23 303.4833 299173 299173 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 1 2023-01-13 19 20.65 0 303.4833 H2331i 80000002628850 2023-01-13 00:00:00 20.65 2023-01-13 6