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The trouble with smooth

Byung-Chul Han, and why a smooth life isn’t a rich one.

Han thinks we want everything smooth: easy, pleasing, nothing to snag on. But beauty has cracks in it, and without a little friction nothing outside your own head ever gets in.

The film’s own page: the transcript, and things to read

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