The Transparency Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transparency Society write by Byung-Chul Han. This book was released on 2015-08-19. The Transparency Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Transparent Society
The Transparent Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transparent Society write by David Brin. This book was released on 1999-05-07. The Transparent Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy
Transparency, Society and Subjectivity
Transparency, Society and Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency, Society and Subjectivity write by Emmanuel Alloa. This book was released on 2018-06-22. Transparency, Society and Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Transparency in Global Change
Transparency in Global Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency in Global Change write by Burkart Holzner. This book was released on 2010-06-15. Transparency in Global Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transparency in Global Change examines the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society. Recent transformations in governments and cultures have brought about a surge in the pursuit of knowledge in areas of law, trade, professions, investment, education, and medical practice—among others. Technological advancements in communications, led by the United States, and public access to information fuel the phenomenon of transparency. This rise in transparency parallels a diminution of secrecy—though, as Burkart and Leslie Holzner point out, secrecy continues to exist on many levels. Based on current events and historical references in literature and the social sciences, Transparency in Global Change focuses on the turning points of information cultures, such as scandals, that lead to pressure for transparency. Moreover, the Holzners illuminate byproducts of transparency—debate, insight, and impetus for change, as transparency exposes the moral corruptions of dictatorship, empire, and inequity.
Transparency and the Open Society
Transparency and the Open Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency and the Open Society write by Taylor, Roger. This book was released on 2016-06-20. Transparency and the Open Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using case studies from around the world, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that can be taken to make it more effective.
