Byung-Chul Han

Matter Against the Machine

Luxury and craft resist AI not out of nostalgia but through precise economic logic: when everything becomes reproducible, the irreproducible becomes premium. The hand that leaves a mark becomes the market's most powerful signal of value.

Conversation Is Not a Prompt: losing the taste for being wrong. (1)

Spending your days commanding a machine that never pushes back trains you toward the comfort of the Same. This isn't a diagnosis yet — it's a lucid hypothesis, which is exactly why it needs to be named now.