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The Disappearance of Rituals A Topology of the Present

Byung-Chul Han

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic...

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It was mentioned as a book that Han wrote about the importance of rituals as temporal technology for housing oneself.

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In his book called The Disappearance of Rituals, Han says he thinks a good way to describe the function of a ritual is to call it a temporal technology for housing oneself.

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It was mentioned as a book that Han wrote about the importance of rituals as temporal technology for housing oneself.

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In his book called The Disappearance of Rituals, Han says he thinks a good way to describe the function of a ritual is to call it a temporal technology for housing oneself.

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