The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering Reclaim the city Einfachheit statt Überfluss

Einfachheit statt Überfluss

’ – Linder Sterling ‘Bonding the mythological and the poetic with the piercingly contemporary that is

culture and thought

die Mütter haben Träume

swathed in an acoustics that transforms it

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering Reclaim the city Einfachheit statt ÜberflussIn his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to