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Problems (7): PR-00001–PR-00007 — Meaning Crisis, Illegitimate Domination, Performance Society Exhaustion, Fascization, Epistemic Power Concentration, Platform Feudalism, Knowledge Isolation Models (5): Han, Fisher, Foucault, Vervaeke, Graeber/Anarchism Values (6): Epistemic Sovereignty, Authority Requires Justification, Exhaustion Is Structural, Mutual Aid Over Market, Digital Autonomy Is Political, Deep Reflection As Practice Arguments (3): Platform Feudalism → Democracy, PKM as Epistemic Strategy, Algorithmic Rationality Erodes Autonomy Organizations (5): IndieWeb, Wikimedia Deutschland, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Mehr Demokratie e.V., netzpolitik.org Plans (1): de-plan1-sven.md — Germany plan with 6 challenges, 5 strategies Data (1): DE-Democracy-Metrics — V-Dem, RSF, EIU, ARD-DeutschlandTREND, Bundeswahlleiter, More in Common Cross-linking: KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH.md + entities.json index Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Model: Performance Society (Byung-Chul Han)
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**Author:** Byung-Chul Han (Korean-German philosopher, b. 1959)
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**Core Thesis:** The disciplinary society (Foucault) operated through external constraint. The performance society replaced external constraint with internal drive. The modern subject is its own overseer. Burnout is the system-conforming outcome, not a personal failure.
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**Key Concepts:**
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- **Leistungsgesellschaft (Performance Society):** Society no longer says "you must" — it says "you can." The modal verb of the new era. Boundless possibility is not freedom; it is a new form of compulsion without external agent to resist.
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- **Tyranny of Positivity:** Systematic devaluation of negativity, boredom, contemplation. The imperative of constant optimization prevents genuine reflection and recovery. "Ja, wir können" as the plural of the performance society.
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- **Müdigkeitsgesellschaft (Fatigue Society):** Exhaustion is the signature condition of the performance subject. Not the fatigue of achievement but the fatigue of never-ending possibility. A society that cannot say no.
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- **Transparenzgesellschaft (Transparency Society):** The demand for total visibility eliminates interiority. What cannot be shown does not count. Performance requires an audience; the self becomes a brand.
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- **Rest is Resistance (Tricia Hersey extension):** Rest is not a tool for productivity recovery — it is a political refusal to submit to the optimization imperative.
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**Problems Addressed:** PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis), PR-00003 (Performance Society Exhaustion)
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**Application:** When encountering burnout, depression, or chronic exhaustion — the first question is not "what is wrong with me?" but "what structural demands are producing this state?" The structure is the cause; the symptom is the signal.
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