Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801486785 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Important--and fun!. This is an original exploration of politics and technology today.Some readers might disagree with Dean that the public doesn't exist. But all will love her discussions of the "priceless" and "198Important--and fun! A Customer This is an original exploration of politics and technology today.Some readers might disagree with Dean that the public doesn't exist. But all will love her discussions of the "priceless" and "1984" ads, movies, conspiracy theory, Bill Gates, etc. Also, her thorough and clear explanations of the work of Slavoj Zizek make the book really useful.. " ads, movies, conspiracy theory, Bill Gates, etc. Also, her thorough and clear explanations of the work of Slavoj Zizek make the book really useful.. Genius Amanda Jodi Dean was my professor so I have had the pleasure of becoming very familiar with her work. She (as well as her book,) is eloquent, opionanted, informed, and to sum it all up a genius. Although some disagree with her views everyone cannot help but respect her. She is one of the greatest political scientists of our time. If you read one work on this subject let it be Jodi Dean's.
In recent decades, media outlets in the United Statesmost notably the Internethave claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the information age.Dean's argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and technology, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media's insistence on the public's right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the theoretical ideal of the public sphere, in which all processes are transparent, reduces real-world politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery.
Ideology itself, in Dean's argument, has been fundamentally altered under the regime of technoculture. Dean speaks with an intelligent and important analytic voice about the seductions and dangers of the wired, media-drenched universe. With a little luck maybe others will follow their lead."Chris Cobb, Leonardo"The World Wide Web has made those with access wary of surveillance, loss of privacy, identity theft, lurking, fraud, scams. Publicity's Secret is an important and distinctive contribution to thought about the public sphere, democracy, and secrecy."Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii"Removing secrets from the soul, where we traditionally suppose them to hide, and from the acts of divination that pretend to uncover them, Jodi Dean examines the genesis of secrecy as a p