Burned Self
A collaboration with poet Robert Koch which arose from a discussion on the topics of “depression” and “beauty” in the work of Byung-Chul Han and resulted in a performed poem.
….which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference
that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears out in a rat race it runs against itself….
Byung-Chul Han “Burnout Society”
…..Truth, as the truth of being, is a process, an event, which confers meaning and significance on to beings in the first place. Thus, a new truth lets beings appear in an altogether different light, and changes our relationship with the world, our understanding of reality. It lets everything appear differently. The advent of truth defines anew what is real. It brings forth another Is. …..
Byung-Chul Han; Steuer, Daniel;. “Saving Beauty”.
