This Obscure Thing Called Transparency

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6270-325-4
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 545 g

The paradoxical logic of transparency and mediation

Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media – it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure Thing Called Transparency gathers contributions by international experts who critically assess the promises and perils of transparency today.

Contributors: Emmanuel Alloa (University of Fribourg), Loup Cellard (Melbourne Law School), Riccardo Donati (Università di Salerno), Mark Fenster (University of Florida), Sara Guindani (Université Paris 7), David Heald (University of Glasgow), Vlad Ionescu (UHasselt/PXL MAD), Dorota Mokrosinska (Leiden University), Herman Parret (KU Leuven), John Pitseys (UCLouvain), Natacha Pfeiffer (Université Saint-Louis), Philippe Van Parijs (UCLouvain), Bart Verschaffel (Ghent University), Patrick Vandermeersch (KU Leuven), Christophe Van Gerrewey (EPFL).

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alloa, Emmanuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. “SEEING THROUGH A GLASS,
DARKLY”

The Transparency Paradox

Emmanuel Alloa

PART I - POLITICS

2. IN DEFENSE OF TRANSPARENCY

Philippe Van Parijs

3. THE USES AND ABUSES OF TRANSPARENCY

David Heald

4. THE POLITICAL IMPERATIVE OF
TRANSPARENCY

Its Grounds and Limits

Dorota Mokrosinska

5. FEED

State Transparency amidst Informational Surplus

Mark Fenster

6. ALGORITHMIC TRANSPARENCY

On the Rise of a New Normative Ideal and Its Silenced Performative Implications

Loup Cellard

7. TRANSPARENCY, PUBLICITY, SECRECY AND
MENDACITY

Four Shades of Political Visibility

John Pitseys

8. WHY TRANSPARENCY HAS LITTLE (IF
ANYTHING) TO DO WITH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Emmanuel Alloa

9. THE CONFESSING ANIMAL

Foucault and Christianity

Patrick Vandermeersch

PART II - AESTHETICS

10. COMMUNICATION, MANIPULATION,
SEDUCTION

The Pragmatics of Transparency

Herman Parret

11. TRANSPARENCY AND OBSTACLE IN
ARCHITECTURE

From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas

Christophe Van Gerrewey

12. TROPPO VERO!

Opacity, Density, Noise and Thickness of Images

Vlad Ionescu

13. THE LAYERED IMAGE

Transparency, Time and Memory in Proust

Sara Guindani

14. WITH HIDDEN NOISE

The Rattle of Marcel Duchamp

Bart Verschaffel

15. THROUGH THE WINDOW OR BEYOND THE
MIRROR

The Phantasmagorias of Transparency and Reflexiveness in Film Natacha Pfeiffer

16. MESSAGES ON GLASS

Transparency in Times of COVID-19

Riccardo Donati

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Über Autor(innen)

Alloa, Emmanuel
Emmanuel Alloa is professor of aesthetics and philosophy of art at the Philosophy Department of the University of Fribourg.