The Emperor's new nudity : the return authoritarianism and the digital obscene /
Yuval Kremnitzer.
- xx, 262 pages ; 23 cm.
- Short circuits .
- Short circuits series .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262).
Preface : Unwritten no more - the new normal -- 1. Father knows worst : authoritarianism, old and new -- Knowing worst : transgression as an occulting exposure -- The parable of giant golden letters -- Transgression as exposure : the medium (of power) is the message -- The decent and the obscene : leader, charisma, law -- What else is new? (I) Truth and lie in an immoral context -- From obscene figures of authority to generalized hyperstasis -- Liberalism or totalitarianism? From forced choice to the choice of force -- If at first you don't concede : ideology in the time of "manufactured dissent" -- Totalitarianism without totality -- Might is right : liberal hypocrisies and their inverted response from the real -- The bonds of complicity : Plato's laws -- What else is new? (II) Divided we stand -- Revolutionary opportunism : the "realism" of postideological zeal -- Liberal democracy and the crisis of representation : an outdated technology? -- A worse democracy : "Players" against "the game" -- Technologies of power : reaching for the ground of law, from discipline to control -- From expert opinion to opinionated mistrust of expertise -- Media sincerity : the unveiling appeal of transgressive authority figures -- 2. Ground and shadow : unwritten law in philosophy and psychoanalysis -- From concept to idea : the ground and shadow of the law -- Prescriptive, descriptive : the fetishist disavowal of normative force -- Autonomy or heteronormy? No, thank you! -- The lawfulness of the contingent : the radical historicity of the unwritten -- Hegel's ethical substance : spirit between myth and history -- Benjamin : fate, myth, law, and violence -- Making it implicit : primal experience, primal phantasy, primal repression -- The logic of phantasy : background experience -- The essence of enjoyment : the modal nonrelation between philosophy and psychoanalysis -- Formalization and its discontents -- 3. The machine's new body : technology, old and new (drive and technology) -- Mastery is said in two ways -- A bone to pick : on the nature of artifacts and the artificial -- The organ of the drive -- The sexual life of technical being : the veil and its vicissitudes -- To know a woman : on the sexual transformation of artificial life -- Wannabes : the artificial teleology of technology -- Out of control : on mastery, technology, and jouissance -- From machine to apparatus, from objectified knowledge to objectified enjoyment -- You ought because (it) can : the mythical power of a future without illusions -- 4. Human, nature : dialectics of the primal -- Occultation and exposure, body and flesh : between first and second technology -- Drives are our mythology : history, between drive and desire -- Making sense common : primal technology, primal phenomena, primal concepts -- These things are not the same : doctrine of the similar -- Writing the unwritten : Clastre, Veblen, and the rise of second technology -- Splitting the master, splitting the difference -- Critique of violence : power is the message -- On the rot in the law : complicity and containment -- 5. Caught in the web : authority and power, media and technology -- Authority and tradition : a hermeneutic circle -- Authority, old and new -- The censor, the king, and the pen -- From substance to network -- On the "magic" of the obscene -- The truth effect of enjoyment -- Knowledge without knowers : Lacan, between science and authority is taboo taboo? -- Crowds and power : the two faces of the masses -- Opening medium, closing medium : the crowd between television and the internet -- Media reflectivity and the plurality of social media -- Coda : From spirit to sex... and back? The obscene and its shadow -- Origin is the goal : from the transference of the new to new transference.
"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 technology -- the internet being the medium that has allowed contemporary authoritarianism to thrive -- asking 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?"--
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Authoritarianism. Autoritarismo Authority. Autoridad Power (Social sciences) Poder (Ciencias sociales) Communication--Political aspects. Comunicación--Aspectos políticos Digital media. Medios digitales