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The Antifa Book Club

The Antifa Book Club

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Veröffentlicht: 2025-10-06
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Veröffentlicht: 2025-10-06
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Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 7: How Modern Control Flatters Our Free Will

Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 7: How Modern Control Flatters Our Free Will

Chapter 7, "Shock," contrasts two figures of "Doctor Shock" to dissect Naomi Klein's theory and differentiate between disciplinary power and neoliberal psychopolitics. The chapter introduces Dr. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who used violent electroshock
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Chapter 7, "Shock," contrasts two figures of "Doctor Shock" to dissect Naomi Klein's theory and differentiate between disciplinary power and neoliberal psychopolitics.
The chapter introduces Dr. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who used violent electroshocks to "de-brand" and "re-brand" the psyche during the Cold War, representing an immunological, negative, and forceful intervention against an "Other" or "Enemy".
It then presents Milton Friedman, who advocated using the "shock" of catastrophes to return societies to "pure capitalism" through "painful shocks".
However, the chapter argues that Klein's theory of shock fails to grasp the true nature of neoliberal psychopolitics, which, unlike Cameron's disciplinary and negative shock therapy, operates through positivity, seduction, and the fulfillment of desires rather than coercion or repression.
This "SmartPolitics" flatters and anticipates the psyche, working with positive stimuli to please and fulfill.
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Erscheinungs­datum: 6.10.2025, 10:23:00

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Welcome to the Antifa Book Club, a space for engaging with the powerful ideas that shape the struggle for a better future. From Sartre and Horkheimer to Ellen Meiksins Wood and Jacques Derrida, we're slowly and carefully working our way through essential theory.
Our format is simple: we tackle one chapter per episode, publishing three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) so you can easily follow along. Feel free to read the chapter beforehand and treat our discussion as a debrief, or listen to the episode first as a primer for your own reading.

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