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Title
Transparency and critical theory : the becoming-transparent of ideology / Jorge I. Valdovinos.
ISBN
9783030955465 (electronic bk.)
303095546X (electronic bk.)
9783030955458 (print)
3030955451
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 422 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-95546-5 doi
Call Number
B823.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
140
Summary
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality -- a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy. Jorge I. Valdovinos is Adjunct Professor for Media and Communications and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 7, 2022).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030955458
1 Introduction: Is the World Turning More Transparent?
2 Defining Transparency
3 Ideology, Hegemony, Neoliberalism, and Critique
4 Discourse, Concepts, and Critique: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
5 A Society of Transparency, an Economy of Attention
6 The Death and Resurrection of Transparency
7 Heidegger and Transparency: Between Truth and Attention
8 Transparency as Aesthetic Fetish: Planar Intensifications at the Bauhaus
9 Conclusion: Towards a Semantic Topology.
