31.07.2022
CLARION

Between Google Earth and the cloud

No more references to heaven and earth: according to Byung-Chul Han, today we inhabit Google Earth and the cloud. For years, the South Korean philosopher has warned about the growing disembodiment of the world, imbuing a narrative with a nostalgic slant that seems to reaffirm, time and again, that the past was always better. Thus, for Han, the digital denatures things, digitizing them.

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