Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

Exploiting Our Boundless Desire To Access Everything All The Time, Digital Technology Is Breaking Down Whatever Boundaries Still Exist Between The State, The Market, And The Private Realm. Bernard Harcourt Offers A Powerful Critique Of What He Calls The Expository Society, Revealing Just How Unfree We Are Becoming And How Little We Seem To Care. Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Expository Society -- 1. George Orwell’s Big Brother -- 2. The Surveillance State -- 3. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon -- 4. Our Mirrored Glass Pavilion -- 5. A Genealogy Of The New Doppelgänger Logic -- 6. The Eclipse Of Humanism -- 7. The Collapse Of State, Economy, And Society -- 8. The Mortification Of The Self -- 9. The Steel Mesh -- 10. Virtual Democracy -- 11. Digital Resistance -- 12. Political Disobedience -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Bernard E. Harcourt. Includes Index. English