Privacy and philosophy
Subtitle: new media and affective protocol
By: Andrew McStay
Series: Digital formations -- vol. 86; Digital formations -- v. 86.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781433118982; 9781433118999
Subjects: Social aspects; Digital media; Right of Privacy; Information technology; Privacy
Description: This book draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human agents, the author makes unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary techno-social condition, and the nature of empathic media in an age of intentional machines. -- Publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Aristotle, borders and the coming of the social; title: 3. Liberalism, consent and the problem of seclusion; title: 4. Utilitarianism, radical transparency and moral truffles; title: 5. Pragmatism: jettisoning normativity; title: 6. Heidegger (part 1): Concerning a historical being and events; title: 7. Heidegger (part 2): On moods and emphatic media; title: 8. Latour: Raising the profile of immaterial actants; title: 9. Phenomenology: the rise of intentional machines; title: 10. The subject: caring for what is public; title: 11. Alienation: the value in being public; title: 12. Spinoza: politics of affect; title: 13: Whitehead: privacy events; title: 14. Community facts.