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Title

The transparency society / Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Erik Butler.

Author

Han, Byung-Chul

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Butler, Erik, 1971-

Description

viii, 58 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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. For 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 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."--

Uniform Title

Transparenzgesellschaft. English

Alternative Title

Transparenzgesellschaft.

Subject

• Social control
• Transparency > Social aspects
• Self-disclosure > Social aspects
• Freedom of information
• Internet > Social aspects
• Transparenz
• Gesellschaft
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Informationsfreiheit

Note

• Translation of: Transparenzgesellschaft.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The society of positivity -- The society of exhibition -- The society of evidence -- The society of pornography -- The society of acceleration -- The society of intimacy -- The society of information -- The society of unveiling -- The society of control.

ISBN

• 9780804794602
• 080479460X
• 9780804797511 (canceled/invalid)
• 080479751X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015020749

OCLC

• 908990567
• SCSB-11515855

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library