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The Emperor's New Nudity
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The Emperor's New Nudity
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An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, as well as what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology.In recent decades, a new style of authoritarian politics has taken hold throughout the liberal-democratic world. The new authority figures are characterized by obscene, transgressive behavior, reminiscent of the crowd leader as theorized by Freud, only far less transient. In The Emperor''s New Nudity, Yuval Kremnitzer considers the fraught intersection of authority and technologythe internet being the medium that has allowed contemporary authoritarianism to thriveasking foundational questions such as: How can we think of the network as a social phenomenon? What can social and political phenomena teach us about the nature of the new technology? And how does technology reshape the very fabric of social and political life?Technology, Kremnitzer writes, leads us toward an impersonal and hyperrational world to such an extent that it renders human subjectivity outmoded. Authority, on the other hand, anchors our subjective identifications to certain figures and seems to be hopelessly primitive and irrational. What is required, then, is a dialectics of the primala study of the way in which what strikes us as essential enters into the dynamics of historical change. From this perspective, authority and technology can be said to be divided by a common objectthe unwritten law, and the special knowledge that pertains to it: a knowledge without knowers.
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| Author | Yuval Kremnitzer |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780262549042 |
| Item Height | 2.2 |
| Item Length | 17.8 |
| Item Width | 11.4 |
| Publisher | Mit Press |
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