Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Transparency SocietyCondition: NewEAN: 9780804794602ISBN: 9780804794602Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/19/2015Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 113gAuthor: Byung-Chul HanLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 080479460XDescription: Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything—and everyone—has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. Yet, transparency has a dark side that, ironically, has everything to do with a lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. Behind the apparent accessibility of knowledge lies the disappearance of privacy, homogenization, and the collapse of trust. The anxiety to accumulate ever more information does not necessarily produce more knowledge or faith. Technology creates the illusion of total containment and the constant monitoring of information, but what we lack is adequate interpretation of the information. In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest and most pernicious of our contemporary mythologies. Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Transparency Society
Title: The Transparency Society
EAN: 9780804794602
ISBN: 9780804794602
Release Date: 08/19/2015
Release Year: 2015
ISBN-10: 080479460X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 72 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Transparency Society
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Social Aspects / General, Civil Rights, Movements / Phenomenology
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.2 in
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Computers, Social Science
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
