Description: About this Item The item is a book Paperback The Author Name is Byung-Chul Han The Title is The Transparency Society Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 72. Category - Philosophy Product Description - 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. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift Ideas This is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of Service We have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 167385387
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Fiction/Non-Fiction: Non-Fiction
Genre/Subject: Philosophy
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Weight: 0.09
Number of Pages: 72 Pages
Publication Name: Transparency Society
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Sociology / General, Social Aspects / General, Civil Rights, Movements / Phenomenology
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Item Length: 8 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Computers, Social Science
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback