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This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor

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This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor - Alloa, Emmanuel (Editor)
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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 ...

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This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor 2022, Leuven University Press, Leuven

ISBN-13: 9789462703254

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