Privacy - Brossura

Keizer, Garret

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ISBN 10: 0312554842 ISBN 13: 9780312554842

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2012

Riassunto

American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.

Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The threshold between privacy and exposure becomes more permeable by the minute. But what happens to our private selves when we cannot escape scrutiny, and to our public personas when they pass from our control?

In this wide-ranging, penetrating addition to the Big Ideas//Small Books series, and in his own unmistakable voice, Garret Keizer considers the moral dimensions of privacy in relation to issues of social justice, economic inequality, and the increasing commoditization of the global marketplace. Though acutely aware of the digital threat to privacy rights, Keizer refuses to see privacy in purely technological terms or as an essentially legalistic value. Instead, he locates privacy in the human capacity for resistance and in the sustainable society "with liberty and justice for all."

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Recensione:

Advance Praise for "Privacy""Privacy has become one of the defining issues of our time, and Garret Keizer is now its most searching interrogator and publicist. He is vast of reference, bracing of clarity, and graceful of expression. What an invigorating instruction: to follow an engaged intelligence as it hits its marks, one after the next."---Sven Birkerts, author of "The Glutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age""Garret Keizer is a very serious thinker and a good writer, much concerned with fundamental realities and fundamental problems. As with any good essay, reading "Privacy" is not the end of it; it calls for serious contemplation."---John Lukacs, author of "Five Days in London: May 1940"Praise for "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want""Very few writers combine thoughtfulness and rage as satisfyingly as Garret Keizer....This is not just a book about noise; it is a profound meditation on power---its painful absence and its flagrant abuse."---Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine""This is a masterpiece of social reportage and---wondrously, given all its burning indictments---of decency and affirmation."- --Ron Powers, author of" Mark Twain: A Life "and""coauthor of "Flags of Our Fathers"""

L'autore:

Garret Keizer is the author of six books, mostly recently of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise. He is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and a recent Guggenheim Fellow.

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0312554842
• ISBN 13: 9780312554842
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 194