The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present - Byung-Chul Han Alvin Lucier and of how our modern

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Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century

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while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions

The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present - Byung-Chul Han Alvin Lucier and of how our modernUntrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of