Byung Chul Han • Sociedade do cansaço [1.Violência neuronal]

1. Who is Byung-Chul Han? Asian philosopher, born in South Korea in 1959, who lives in Germany. Essayist on the contemporary world. 2. The Burnout Society HAN, B, C. The Burnout Society. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2015. Book published in 2010 in Germany. Translated into Portuguese in 2015 by Vozes. I will highlight some aspects of chapter 1. “Neuronal Violence” Position 34 [1] Each era has had its fundamental illnesses. Thus, we have a bacteriological era, which came to an end with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite the immense fear we have today of a flu pandemic, we do not live in a viral era. [2] Thanks to immunological techniques, we have already left that era behind. Seen from a pathological perspective, the beginning of the 21st century is defined neither as bacteriological nor viral, but neuronal. Neuronal diseases such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), or Burnout Syndrome (BS) define the pathological landscape of the beginning of the 21st century. They are not infections, but heart attacks, caused not by the negativity of something immunologically different, but by an excess of positivity. Position 137 Viral violence, which continues to follow the immunological scheme of interior and exterior or self and other, and presupposes a singularity or otherness hostile to the system, is no longer able to describe neuronal illnesses such as depression, ADHD, or BS. Neuronal violence no longer stems from a negativity foreign to the system. It is rather a systemic violence, that is, a violence immanent to the system. Both depression and ADHD or BS point to an excess of positivity. BS is a burning of the self due to overheating, caused by an excess of sameness. The "hyper" of hyperactivity is not an immunological category. It simply represents a massification of the positive.