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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
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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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“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
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“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
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“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
- OpenAlex
- W4243369708
- Cited by
- 193
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- Citations by year
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- 11.38
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- en
- Open access
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- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › 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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