Chapter 13 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Idiotism," and it introduces the concept of the "idiot" as a profound figure of resistance and a pathway to liberation from the ubiquitous control of neoliberal psychopolitics.

The chapter posits that the very function of philosophy, from its inception, has been to "play the fool," suggesting that any philosopher who has forged a new way of thinking has, by necessity, been an "idiot" with unique access to the "wholly Other" and a field of immanence that defies subjectivation and psychologization.

In stark contrast to the historical role of the idiosyncratic idiot, the chapter observes that contemporary society, with its "thoroughgoing digital networking and communication," has massively amplified the "compulsion to conform," effectively suppressing such idiotisms through a pervasive "violence of consensus."

Idiotism is thus presented as a vital "practice of freedom" for the modern age, embodied by an unallied, un-networked, and uninformed individual who inhabits an "immemorial outside" beyond the reach of total communication and surveillance.

This figure is likened to a "modern-day heretic," possessing the "courage to deviate from orthodoxy" and preserving the "magic of the outsider" against the ceaseless demands for disclosure and expression.

Ultimately, "Idiotism" champions the creation of "spaces for guarding silence, quiet, and solitude," allowing for meaningful thought and speech that transcends the "horizontal plane" of system-immanent intelligence and instead connects to a "vertical dimension" of "pure immanence," thereby pointing toward a mode of existence characterized by singularity, freedom, and a "time-space free of labour."