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Thank you, it was a pleasure to listen to you!

Criminally underrated video

Speaking of lingering, how do you manage to read so many books so quickly?

Amazing video! I just read the book and this video helped me a lot to reflect on the story

Great review Davood. 7:00 - These figures/writers are like new, "Potential friends..." How refreshing to highlight this aspect of our relationships to Han, Knepper, Gozli, etc. Maybe the book on Han could be discussed in the reading group? See you soon on zoom. Patrick

Your presentation of this is thoughtful and articulate. Many thanks!

4:59 so helpful language, Davood. thanks. "Every discipline has its own set of network concepts and words that guide it and frame its projects. "❤ It also helps to see how Han can Shed new light on their projects and move the Horizon to other networks and projects, bringing them together.

I love his acknowledgement of Marx's critique of philosophy. I think Marx's critique is powerful and at the same time misses something. Thank you for this review.

I am one of those "socialist" that is involved with orgs that are for anti war, housing, and equity. As some who reads on "Revolutionary" history to me it looks like our efforts have limited and at a larger scale no effect at all on stopping wars or inequality. Only reason I continue because there few people I know would benefit from our work. I am always almost hoping the possibility that somehow through many people's efforts things will get better in some ways.

This book kinda reminds me of One piece with respect to buildup of the historical setting. So, long but I want read this book now because of your review!😅I am 21 so I still got time (hopefully).

Johnathan Haidt, the Zionist sympathizer, who cozies up to billionaires who tried to crush anti-genocide protests on campus.

I love your opinion, and i’m deciding which book from Han to get…thanks

I don't agree with his argument at all. Reading the book is like he is trying to spread the cause of some disasters in human beings' history only by "storytelling". However, there were Hitler and Stalin, in the meantime, there were Churchill and Roosevelt who believed in different things, which is the truth. The cause, on the contrary, was the absence of truth in these countries at that time. So, it is not a flawed information system. It is in these countries that the information system was replaced by a whole propaganda agent controlled by the dictator.

Intersubjective domain and computer intersubective realities. These are new ideas and that we, the human must use experience and verify , verify everything. define information is connecting different pints of view.. it misses these two points to be connected nodes in a network . I loved the book its all about the story. that is what we humans know. Experience, reality , verify verify verify.. 😂😂😂😂

Will you ever consider joining substack?

Brilliant briefing on the book. I am currently reading it and can see a lot of traits in my eldest daughter that this book describes when raised by peers. My youngest is home educated and she is still herself and hasn't been mind altered. Its fascinating to see the difference. My eldest is 11 and wants to be home educated when she finishes this school year (yr 6 in England) I am looking forward to witnessing my daughter return to her heart again ♥️.

I want to take a moment to tell UA-cam that Davood Gozli's channel is ESSENTIAL to the health of the social media ecosystem .. grappling challenging texts, culling interest-piquing passages, and building a reading community. Yes, yes, yes.

The conversation about the approval of others was relevant and interesting. However, most subjects of the book are really irrelevant to the purpose of the book. The philosopher was just as immature as the student. The student misinterpreted the philospher and couldn't take things with a grain of salt.He took things way too literally and talked way too much about his classroom. The dialogues become very repetitive. They repeat the same things over and over again. The student is like a parrot. The philosopher judges and accuses the teacher without knowing him. What's annoying about the philosopher is that he makes a lot of assumptions about the student and is quite rude.

Those Marcel Proust books in the back caught my eyes. What an amazing book

Great Job Davood on this review. Like any other technology, there’s utility and there’s hype. Where that line is crossed requires an informed consumer to separate the wheat from the chaff of hype and marketing. There’s opportunity now for a watchdog NGO to monitor the quality and reviews of these entities; or better yet, an open-source review platform to avoid collusion with the industry! Cheers!

Thank you for this

Excellent review, thank you. The background music underpinning your criticism of the book I found distracting and unnecessary, as though you might be somewhat hesitant to air your views. What you have to say is very much worth listening to on its own.

From 38:20 it gets gold. Thnks 40:22: that curiosity probably came with the fruit. Or an evolutionary step of our brains.

Thanks for your excellent explanation and unpacking of this seminal book. I will definitely purchase it now. Thank you!!! 🙏🏾

Great review Davood!!! Just discovered your channel looking for a review of Nexus, which I’ve read and plan to review and incorporate into my channel on the topic of malinformation. His explanation of the relationship between truth and power for the sake of order is fascinating. Your review was very insightful and I enjoyed your final thoughts, especially about Harrari’s tight narrative, which I totally agree with. Sapiens is also worth the review if you get around to it. From one Persian to another, Kudos brother! Sub’ed and looking forward to watching more of your reviews! ❤

An interesting video, many ideas that i have not thought about - but it's true, that the reality that bureaucracy is keeping alive, is not the truth about our life. This disharmony causes suffering per se. The book is interesting, i could never have so much energy that i could read it but thank you very much for reviewing it !. I must say it was quite dystopic and it gave a gloomy feeling, which is why I think many of his ideas are theoretical over-simplifications. But we never know how the world of humans evolves, i hope computers won't start to affect humans that much. Common sense is needed. And empathy.

👏👏👏 Bravo. Excellent analysis and video, and bonus points for your soothing voice! I think Harari's style is akin to elevated, "healthy" fast-food, in that it has cheap calories that fool you into thinking you are full. 100% agree with your point on capitalism too; it feels like a 3rd rail item for him.

Another upbeat and enjoyable review… could it be the cats? 🐈🐈‍⬛ Harari’s books initially engage me, but my attention falters. I then need to skip along - and occasionally augment with audio. You offer good reasons to consider why this might be the case… in addition to me being old, somewhat impatient, and prone to dump things for the next shiny object. I’ll check this one out through the library. Thank you!

Thanks!

is the reading club online?

Ooooo... looking forward to watching this and then deciding whether to read the book or not 😉

Christopher i respect you sir , continue pls

Thanks Davood for this review. I'm thinking about rereading this book because I'm tired of having to defend fiction from students and peers who want to reduce the richness of books, plays and poems to their ideas. It seems pretty obvious to me that a lot of people have lost the patience to linger with their reading, and of course, many have never developed this capacity at all. Can you recommend other books like this one that celebrate the powers of reading (beyond their ideas)? Keep up the great work. Patrick

Thank you for this! Would love to see some Chekhov's review from you if you ever get around to read him.

the comment about style is also resonates with me very much. One of way imo a teacher can answer the question student as about what am I gonna use it for? is by presenting in a way that's relevant. I am taking a shakespeare class as a undergrad history major for my elective. My prof. I amazing at presenting shakespeare. For the first time I understand the language of shakespeare. sorry I am probably over-sharing 😅

I feel nobody understands me or desire to understands me deeply. When I find a author whose creation "gets" me (ex. Anton Chekhov) I feel calm. Like what I feel is okay. I guess one could says it's a response to alienation like for someone it is going to concerts.

i have noticed this theme comes up frequently in his books - related to the compulsion to produce, where we would rather continually produce more of the same crap than stop and reflect on the utility of it for even a moment. I haven't read The Expulsion of the Other, but looking forward to it! thanks for reviewing it here...

Answering your question - yes please, a seminar on the book would be very interesting. (It might have happened already for all I know as this vid is a year old 😃)

I'm glad to hear my the discussion of "Curtain" was thought-provoking despite its seemingly different focus. I'm still kind of pondering the connection between this and "Knife" which I haven't read, so I don't have anything too concrete to add here. But, I do think it's an interesting juxtaposition. I've been focused a lot lately in some of my other readings (Jane Eyre, and Intermezzo by Sally Rooney) on the ways in which sudden and irreversible experiences, like being attacked with a knife I'm sure, shake our view of the world and force us to rethink our conceptions of ourselves. And the language of "cutting" as well as the metaphor of the falling curtain does feel apt for such scenarios. It's interesting what you say about how it feels like a missed opportunity for Rushdie not to have forgiven his attacker, because I think I would have hoped for the same thing. When someone insists they really don't care about something or someone, usually to me it feels like a denial of something that clearly still carries some emotional charge in their mind (otherwise why would they voluntarily bring it up)? But I won't say more since I haven't actually read the book.

For me, Dember is the absolute gold standard for thinking Metamodernism, I’ve learned so much from engaging his work. Thanks for another great interview, Davood!

Would it be incorrect to say that meta-modernism is a deliberate approach to finding and extending knowledge into the void... or, in other words, the continuous probing of and sorting out of contradictions. Knowing one's self through the intimate social interactions that learning knowledge requires. Neo intellectualism...

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thank you for the video. Very interesting points. You discussed retelling and the beginning of a new book (symbolically). I thought of it a lot and i think we all have moments like that, that something really shakens things and i have felt like this too and i realized after watching your video that my life has maybe different parts too, and retelling would be important in personal level. Life does not have to go on like nothing happened if something major has happened. -- i would really love to take part in that reading group too but i am too busy with work sadly. It would be awesome to read that book by Byung Chul Han.

Thanks Davood again for going deeper and slower (not a quick-take) into difficult dynamics, public/private issues, other relevant writers. I'd like to know more about Heidegger 's being, '"the more primordial being" 41:30 I'm glad I watched to the end with the VW reference, which leaves me with more to linger on. Also nice to see your cute cat. Your "slow-take"/ videos challenge me to pay closer attention and to re-watch your better and higher quality content.🙂 Patrick

More mouths to feed… with any luck they won’t be readers. It’s been awhile - you’re looking well. 🧐

Thanks!