The Agony of Eros

Byung-Chul Han is one of the largest philosophers of contemporary thought!

In the dynamic essay “The Agony of Eros” Byung-Chul Han examines the control of passions in modern society as the most important tool of “taming” and manipulation by power.

Under the weight of this control, a person can no longer love and only indulges their sexuality.

Today, sex is performance; sexuality is capital. Pornography is a premonition of dead sex in virtual space, not living sexuality.

A burnout society in which people exhaust themselves—without any possibility of freeing themselves in relation to the Other—is a society without Eros.