EAN: 9783319771601

TRANSPARENCY SOCIETY AND SUBJECTIVITY GEBUNDEN

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.

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