Negativity as resistance: an answer to Byung-Chul Han’s positivity

Authors

  • Nicolás Orrego Cárcamo

Abstract

In the present essay, the scope of positivity will be addressed, as a psycho-political governmental mechanism. Based on the postulate by the philosopher Byung Chul-Han, the concept of psycho-politic and its main coertion device: the positivity will be developed. Given this, the need arises to think about the resistance to this supposed hegemony, thus the role of negativity in the experience of the subject as an answer will be observed.

Keywords:

positivity, resistance, negativity