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Byung-Chul Han: The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society is a 2015 work of social theory by the Korean-German author, Byung-Chul Han. It analyses the ‘achievement society’...
James Ward
Oct 10, 20247 min read


What's Wrong with Our Society?
I received a comment on TikTok recently in response to a video I posted about Mark Fisher’s 2009, Capitalist Realism . Sadly, it’s since...
James Ward
Jul 13, 20244 min read


Waterstones and how it caught me by surprise
About two years ago, I went to London with my wife to look at some Chinese porcelain in the British museum. There’d been a programme...
James Ward
Feb 8, 20203 min read


‘Capturing life’
It is often said of the greatest novels that they ‘capture life’, and this has probably been an ambition of most major authors. The...
James Ward
May 26, 20194 min read
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