Everyone in achievement society is homo sacer—undead and holy.

Evidence

If late-modern achievement society has reduced us all to bare life, then it is not just people at the margins or in a state of exception—that is, the excluded—but all of us, without exception, who are homines sacri. That said, this bare life has the particularity of not being absolutely expendable [tötbar]; rather, it cannot be killed absolutely [absolut untötbar (ist)]. It is undead, so to speak. Here the word sacer does not mean “accursed” but “holy.” Now bare, sheer life itself is holy, and so it must be preserved at any cost. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 50

Categorization

• DEFINE: Redefines Agamben’s homo sacer from ‘accursed/excluded’ to ‘holy/undead,’ inverting the original meaning against its source.
• XREF: Inverts Agamben’s Homo Sacer directly; connects to the reader’s interest in how Han reworks others’ concepts.

Related

• The achievement-subject’s exhaustion is an undead state, both over-alive and under-alive. (similarity 0.80)
• Achievement society’s inner logic drives it inexorably toward doping. (similarity 0.79)