The Right to Oblivion : Privacy and the Good Life / Lowry Pressly.
2024
GT2405
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Title
The Right to Oblivion : Privacy and the Good Life / Lowry Pressly.
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ISBN
9780674298262
0674298268
0674298268
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2024]
Copyright
2024
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674298262 doi
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GT2405
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.448
Summary
A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today's hypermediated world--not just as a political right but as the key to a life worth living.The parts of our lives that are not being surveilled and turned into data diminish each day. We are able to configure privacy settings on our devices and social media platforms, but we know our efforts pale in comparison to the scale of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic manipulation. In our hyperconnected era, many have begun to wonder whether it is still possible to live a private life, or whether it is no longer worth fighting for.The Right to Oblivion argues incisively and persuasively that we still can and should strive for privacy, though for different reasons than we might think. Recent years have seen heated debate in the realm of law and technology about why privacy matters, often focusing on how personal data breaches amount to violations of individual freedom. Yet as Lowry Pressly shows, the very terms of this debate have undermined our understanding of privacy's real value. In a novel philosophical account, Pressly insists that privacy isn't simply a right to be protected but a tool for making life meaningful.Privacy deepens our relationships with others as well as ourselves, reinforcing our capacities for agency, trust, play, self-discovery, and growth. Without privacy, the world would grow shallow, lonely, and inhospitable. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Hannah Arendt, Jorge Luis Borges, and a range of contemporary artists, Pressly shows why we all need a refuge from the world: not a place to hide, but a psychic space beyond the confines of a digital world in which the individual is treated as mere data.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 Photography and the Invention of Privacy
2 Privacy, Perception, and Agency
3 Hiding in Private
4 Memory and Oblivion
5 Privacy and the Production of Human Depth
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
1 Photography and the Invention of Privacy
2 Privacy, Perception, and Agency
3 Hiding in Private
4 Memory and Oblivion
5 Privacy and the Production of Human Depth
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index