Disciple of Hegel, follower of Heidegger and heir to a Zen legacy, for Byung-Chul Han, philosophy is the critical understanding of power. And where else than in Silicon Valley, the technical and cultural cradle of an era dedicated to the logic of the internet, is that power?

Today it is on networks and digital platforms where our links, consumption and feelings are created and trafficked. But what metaphysical price do we pay for accessing them without a minimum of negativity? Are we our own bosses” or “artists” by handing over our data to the economic or aesthetic mandates of the web? While our intimate life is subordinated to a digitalized narcissism, where seduction replaces pleasure and sex is almost more exceptional than love, Han raises questions that, when discussing with Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek, Peter Sloterdijk and Boris Groys,
They illuminate the darkness of the screens that build our reality. Byung-Chul Han and the Political opens a door to the fundamental concepts of one of the most relevant thinkers of this era, marked by continuous crises.