| Description |
viii, 364 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-345) and index. |
| Contents |
Expository society -- Part one. Cleaning the ground -- George Orwell's Big Brother -- Surveillance state -- Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon -- Part Two. Birth of the expository society -- Our mirrored glass pavilion -- A genealogy of the new doppgänger logic -- Eclipse of humanism -- Part Three. Perils of digital exposure -- Collapse of state, economy, and society -- Mortification of self -- Steel mesh -- Part Four. Digital disobedience -- Virtual democracy -- Digital resistance -- Political disobedience. |
| Summary |
"Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Exposed offers a powerful critique of our new virtual transparence, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care. Bernard Harcourt guides us through our new digital landscape, one that makes it so easy for others to monitor, profile, and shape our every desire. We are building what he calls the expository society--a platform for unprecedented levels of exhibition, watching, and influence that is reconfiguring our political relations and reshaping our notions of what it means to be an individual. We are not scandalized by this. To the contrary: we crave exposure and knowingly surrender our privacy and anonymity in order to tap into social networks and consumer convenience--or we give in ambivalently, despite our reservations. But we have arrived at a moment of reckoning. If we do not wish to be trapped in a steel mesh of wireless digits, we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to resist. Disobedience to a regime that relies on massive data mining can take many forms, from aggressively encrypting personal information to leaking government secrets, but all will require conviction and courage."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects. |
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Privacy, Right of.
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Privacy, Right of. |
| ISBN |
0674504577 (cloth) |
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9780674504578 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
40025445745 |
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