How does the digital revolution, the Internet and social networks have transformed society and relationships? They have analyzed the differences between 'classical mass "and the new mass, which he calls the" digital swarms ".

Byung-Chul Han, in this new essay analyzes how the digital revolution, internet and social networking has transformed the very essence of society.

According to the author, has formed a new body: the "digital swarms". Unlike classical mass, digital swarm consists of isolated individuals, no soul, we can a common action, to walk in one direction or manifest in a voice. The digital hyper destroys the soul needs silence to reflect and to be herself. Noise is just senseless, without coherence. All this prevents the formation of a counter that could challenge the established order, thus acquiring totalitarian features. Companies like Facebook and Google are working as secret service guarding our interests to extract benefit of our behavior on the Internet and social networks.

To Byung-Chul Han, has been left behind biopolitical era. Today we headed to the era of digital psicopolítica, where power is involved in unconscious psychological processes. The psicopoder is more efficient than biopower, because monitors, controls and moves men not from without but from within.