{"id":13391,"date":"2024-02-18T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/the-crisis-of-narration-by-byung-chul-han-review-how-big-tech-altered-the-narrative\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:37:53","slug":"the-crisis-of-narration-by-byung-chul-han-review-how-big-tech-altered-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/the-crisis-of-narration-by-byung-chul-han-review-how-big-tech-altered-the-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review \u2013 how big tech altered the narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Instagram to health apps, the modern world no longer allows for rich and complex storytelling argues the philosopher in an entertaining polemic that\u2019s short on humility<\/p>\n<p>In Charlie Kaufman\u2019s puppet animation <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/mar\/13\/anomalisa-review-charlie-kaufman-duke-johnson-david-thewlis-jennifer-jason-leigh\">Anomalisa<\/a><\/em>, everyone looks and speaks the same. It\u2019s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2000\/mar\/19\/philipfrench\">Being John Malkovich<\/a><\/em>, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and notices everyone \u2013 waiters, diners, perhaps even a passing dog \u2013 have his face and voice, has gone global.<\/p>\n<p>No one is immune: at one point, the mouth of the narrator, a motivational speaker called Michael Stone, falls from his face into his hands and chatters away all by itself. The guru\u2019s improving homilies are so artificially intelligent, predictable and effectively transhuman, that they need no warming body or soul to sustain them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/feb\/18\/the-crisis-of-narration-byung-chul-han-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/df0d74d8c41bc7c36ec0453bf01f1b07d1b08e12\/0_266_3988_2393\/master\/3988.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4127093fcf55c3f4e1d036f855d62eef\" title=\"The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review \u2013 how big tech altered the narrative\" \/>From Instagram to health apps, the modern world no longer allows for rich and complex storytelling argues the philosopher in an entertaining polemic that\u2019s short on humility<br \/>\nIn Charlie Kaufman\u2019s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It\u2019s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and notices everyone \u2013 waiters, diners, perhaps even a passing dog \u2013 have his face and voice, has gone global.<br \/>\nNo one is immune: at one point, the mouth of the narrator, a motivational speaker called Michael Stone, falls from his face into his hands and chatters away all by itself. The guru\u2019s improving homilies are so artificially intelligent, predictable and effectively transhuman, that they need no warming body or soul to sustain them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Instagram to health apps, the modern world no longer allows for rich and complex storytelling argues the philosopher in an entertaining polemic that\u2019s short on humility In Charlie Kaufman\u2019s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It\u2019s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/the-crisis-of-narration-by-byung-chul-han-review-how-big-tech-altered-the-narrative\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review \u2013 how big tech altered the narrative<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}