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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

Harcourt, Bernard E.·2015·Harvard University Press eBooks
DOI 10.4159/9780674915077
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Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Bernard Harcourt offers a powerful critique of what he calls the expository society, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.

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  • Use of digital technologies such as ICT platforms leads to a loss of individual autonomy rather than an increase.

    “More profoundly, use of digital technologies such as ICT platforms (infrastructures) seems to have perverse effects -leading not to an increase in individual autonomy, as hoped for, but to a loss of it.”

    From Organized Immaturity in a Post-Kantian Perspective: Toward a critical theory of surveillance capitalism (2023) · cites this paper as Harcourt, 2015

  • People voluntarily agree to the loss of autonomy by opting in, lured by conveniences, unaware of underlying structures that control them.

    “Furthermore, it is a loss to which people voluntarily 'agree', by opting in, lured by the attractiveness of everyday conveniences (Harcourt, 2015) and unaware of underlying structures and processes that are beyond their control but are, in turn, insidiously controlling them (Lanier, 2018;West, 2019;Zizek, 2020).”

    From Organized Immaturity in a Post-Kantian Perspective: Toward a critical theory of surveillance capitalism (2023) · cites this paper as Harcourt, 2015

  • The Big Other influences individual behaviour in non-transparent ways for purposes serving economic and political interests of unaccountable actors operating beyond democratic control and rule of law.

    “Despite the alluring improvements offered by this technology to human living conditions (see Harcourt, 2015;Gigerenzer, 2022), the Big Other influences individual behaviour in nontransparent ways, for purposes that serve the economic and political interests of actors who are not accountable to others and who largely operate beyond democratic control systems and the rule of law (see also West, 2019”

    From Organized Immaturity in a Post-Kantian Perspective: Toward a critical theory of surveillance capitalism (2023) · cites this paper as Harcourt, 2015

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Authors
Harcourt, B. E.
Corresponding author
Harcourt, Bernard E.
ORCID
Harcourt, Bernard E.
Venue
Harvard University Press eBooks
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
2015-12-31
DOI
10.4159/9780674915077
OpenAlex
W4243369708
Cited by
193
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 7
FWCI
11.38
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Law, Rights, and Freedoms
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
Keywords
surveillance, privacy, digital technologies, government surveillance, market surveillance, public-private boundary, civil liberties, freedom, access to information, social control

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