The Scent of Time

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to thevita activais producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to thevita activacreates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, ananimal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It th...