Aesthetic Critique of Digital Enhancement
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aesthetics
affect
Author_Sarah Bianchi
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continental philosophy
cultural philosophy
digital change
digital enhancement
digital media
digitalization
enlightenment
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Foucault
freedom
French philosophy
genealogical critique
German philosophy
government involvement
Nietzsche
philosophy of technology
political philosophy
politics & government
politics & social sciences
power
privacy
self-government
social ontology
social philosophy
socio-political studies
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- ISBN 9781666928310
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 158 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The socio-cultural phenomenon of digital enhancement, that is, the attempt to perfect the subject’s offline life by means of digital media, seduces people into participating in digitalization. Subjects paradoxically want to participate in digital change even though it is well known that digitalization also impairs their freedom and privacy, and this book investigates both the freedom-impairing and the freedom-enhancing aspects of digital enhancement. Sarah Bianchi provides an empirically informed critical aesthetic diagnosis, a perspective that makes the overlooked affect- and power-sensitive Janus face of subjectivity in digital enhancement perceivable: the subjects’ desire to be governed by the logic of perfection—that is, the heart of digital enhancement—and their simultaneous desire for self-government. To this end, An Aesthetic Critique of Digital Enhancement: Government of the Self and Desire makes Foucault’s “history of the present” in its Nietzschean genealogy productive for contemporary critical thought on digital enhancement. Through genealogical critique, this approach provides the needed semantics to question the costs of our digital present and to conceptualize how an enlightened agency might be critically constructed.
Sarah Bianchi is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University in Frankfurt.
