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The Transparency Society

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Transparency Society

By Byung-Chul Han

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About the book

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, ironica...Show more

Sociology

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ISBN

9780804794602

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Transparency Society

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Paperback

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