Infokratie. Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie

Digitalization is advancing at an unimaginable pace. We are surrounded by constant communication and information overload. At the same time, we feel powerless in the face of the tsunami of information, which is itself starting to unleash deformative, destructive forces. Digitalization is affecting the political sphere and leading to massive distortions in the democratic process. Byung-Chul Han’s new essay describes today’s crisis of democracy by tracing it back to the digital structural change of the public sphere. Han gives the crisis a name: Infocracy and locates it in the information regime as a new form of rule.