Psicopolítica em Byung-Chul Han: novas formas de controle na civilização tecnológica

Abstract

This article talks about the means of control exercised through the use of digital communication technologies. The research was based on the thinking of the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han, exposed mainly in the following books: In the swarm: perspectives of the digital, Society of Transparency and Psychopolitics - Neoliberalism and the new techniques of power. The analysis that said thinker made about the technical means available to today's society points that digital interactivity tools work in at least two ways: attracting individuals to the continuous presence and participation in the virtual space and influencing the users' subjectivity. According to the author, the continuous presence in the virtual space alters the intersubjective experience of people, resulting in the formation of profiles and behavioral tendencies that reinforce subjection and prevent resistance. This is the basic scheme of a new form of domination of man in technological civilization, a form that Byung-Chul Han calls psychopolitics.