Transparency, Society and Subjectivity 1st ed. 2018 Edition Emmanuel Alloa

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319771604
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319771601
• Author: Emmanuel Alloa

This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, sincerity and the notion of a public sphere. In a suspicious manner, transparency is entangled in the discourses on power, surveillance, and self-exposure. Bringing together prominent scholars from the emerging field of Critical Transparency Studies, the book offers a map of the various sites at which transparency has become virulent and connects the dots between past and present. By studying its appearances in today’s hyper-mediated economies of information and by linking it back to its historical roots, the book analyzes transparency and its discontents, and scrutinizes the reasons why it has become the imperative of a supposedly post-ideological age.

Table contents:

Part I. Transparency in the Making
Transparency: A Magic Concept of Modernity
Seeing It All, Doing It All, Saying It All: Transparency, Subject, and the World
The Dream of Transparency: Aquinas, Rousseau, Sartre
The Unbounded Confession
Seeing It All: Bentham’s Panopticon and the Dark Spots of Enlightenment
Transparency, Humanism, and the Politics of the Future Before and After May ’68
Part II. Under the Crystal Dome
The Limits of Transparency
Publicity and Transparency: The Itinerary of a Subtle Distinction
Regulation and Transparency as Rituals of Distrust: Reading Niklas Luhmann Against the Grain
Not Individuals, Relations: What Transparency Is Really About. A Theory of Algorithmic Governmentality
Obfuscated Transparency
The Privatization of Human Interests or, How Transparency Breeds Conformity
Part III. From the Panopticon to the Selfie and Back
Transparency and Subjectivity: Remembering Jennifer Ringley
Putting Oneself Out There: The “Selfie” and the Alter-Rithmic Transformations of Subjectivity
Interrupting Transparency
Virtual Transparency: From the Panopticon to the Expository Society and Beyond
Back Matter

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