Why Originality is a Myth: Byung-Chul Han's Shanzhai 

I thank you for this video. It's rare to see someone who touched on Han's lesser known works, especially Shanzhai. It's very different to his recent critique of neoliberalism. Perhaps Han's concept of de-creation shines light on the current issue about AI art, intellectual property and the copyright system. And perhaps, as you also explained in the video, Han unveils our fetishism with the original genius artist and showed how the novel is not sudden event, but always created through engagement with past works, collaboration and slow hard work. Keep up with the video and good luck to your channel man!

The point at 18:23 reminds me of the passage in Don Dellio’s White Noise, in where two characters go visit the “most photographed barn in America.” One of the characters points out how no one visiting the barn is able to see the barn as it was before it got that title. Enjoyed the video 👍

This differing view of originality in the East and West is fascinating. I’ve read a bit about Chinese landscape painting and the Western concept is ego based. The prices that Western paintings fetch at auction would indicate that they’re the idols of our time.

Nice. Do a video on Hegel and make him look this cool.

Wonderful video! Please make more! This is such precious content… 🙏🏽

Really great video. As a working artist in the west, so many of these ideas rocked me (in the best way). Really glad you shone a light on this work, looking forward to giving it a read!

thanks so much..

The soft-serve ice cream of contemporary philosophy.

Thank you for providing such a thoughtful analysis and presenting it in a way that was engaging and relevant. Inspiring.

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Awesome video, thanks! Somne very interesting takes. I am wondering though, to what extent the shanzai products (i.e. cell phones) is really an act of subversion/playfulness or rather an extension of capitalist competitive dynamics. I mean, in recent years Chinese smart phone companies have become huge, using, as all the Western ones do, methods of brutal exploitation.

very interesting presentation, thank you. I do not however agree with the idea that museification intrinsically repurposes a space. That kinda ignores the purpose of preserving something for reliving; reliving something is a feat of imagination so really the main distinction between east and west could rather be cognitive and cultural second

Its very important that your analyses is truth about the west after the enlightment. This was not the case in the middle age. Very important.

Most interesting video, thanks for making it

This video was fascinating, please keep making things!

May I ask what is the art work ar 3:20? Is beautiful

amazing videod

At 24:00 I was reminded of a scene in Blood Meridian: “This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.”

This video reminded me of Spinoza's view about everything being a manifestation of God himself, and therefore, there truly is no contradiction between original and reproduction, between Plato's ideas and Zen-Buddhist thought, between the West and the East: they are just manifestations of God, or of the apparent order of the universe at a given moment. Brilliant video. Brazilian greetings, already waiting for the next ones.