Transparency, Society and Subjectivity

Emmanuel Alloa is Research Leader in Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and teaches aesthetics at the University of Paris 8. His work is located at the intersection of continental philosophy, aesthetics and social theory. He is the author of Resistance of the Sensible World. An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017).Dieter Thomä is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland,  and the author of Troublemakers: A Philosophy of “puer robustus” (2019). He specializes in political philosophy, aesthetics and phenomenology, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Getty Research Institute.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Emmanuel Alloa & Dieter Thomä. - Chapter 2. Not so Wicked Leaks; Umberto Eco. – Part I. Transparency In The Making.- 3. Transparency; Emmanuel Alloa.- 4. Seeing It All, Doing It All, Saying It All; Dieter Thomä.- 5. The Dream of Transparency; Manfred Schneider.- 6. The Unbounded Confession; Noreen Khawaja.- 7. Seeing It All; Miran Božovič.- 8. ransparency, Humanism, and the Politics of the Future Before and After May ’68; Stefanos Geroulanos.- Part II. Under the Crystal Dome.- 9. The Limits of Transparency; Amitai Etzioni.- 10. Publicity and Transparency; Sandrine Baume.- 11. Regulation and Transparency as Rituals of Distrust; Caspar Hirschi.-12. Not Individuals, Relations; Thomas Berns.- 13. Obfuscated Transparency; Dieter Mersch.- 14. The Privatization of Human Interests or, How Transparency Breeds Conformity; Thomas Docherty.- Part. III. From the Panopticon to the Selfie and Back.- 15. Transparency and Subjectivity; Vincent Kaufmann.- 16. Putting Oneself Out There; Jörg Metelmann  & Thomas Telios.- 17. Interrupting Transparency; Clare Birchall.- 18. Virtual Transparency; Bernard E. Harcourt.- Index.

“The book is a very welcome contribution to transparency literature. … I can warmly recommend reading the book to anyone who is interested in our current culture of transparency, its promises, and in particular its perils.” (Ida Koivisto, Res Publica, Vol. 25, 2019)