ABSTRACT
Byung-Chul Han says: ‘Capitalism heightens the pornographication of society by exhibiting everything as a commodity and handing it over to hypervisibility. Had he deployed it, it would have been consistent with other categories he has used for the challenge he has posed to the contemporary ‘transparency society’, for which he, in part, follows Jean Baudrillard, although not without criticism. Capitalism is aggravating the pornographication of society by making everything a commodity and putting it on display. The main feature of contemporary society is the transition from a ‘disciplinary society’ to a ‘society of control’, the transition from Jeremy Bentham’s ‘panopticon’ to a ‘digital panopticon’. In fact, Han, in a facile manner, dismisses the categories of ‘class’ and ‘class struggle’ and hurries to say that they are ‘antiquated’ categories. In his Psychopolitics, Han brings up Karl Marx and Marxian theory in an abbreviated fashion, only to conclude quickly against the validity of the notion of the ‘proletariat’.
