Sarah Bianchi

An Aesthetic Critique of Digital Enhancement

Government of the Self and Desire

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the paradox of digital enhancement: we simultaneously desire to be governed by the logic of perfection and to be self-governed. Through genealogical and aesthetic critique, Sarah Bianchi questions the costs of our digital present and conceptualizes how to critically construct an enlightened agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9781666928310
• ISBN-10: 1666928313
• Artikelnr.: 68536732

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bianchi is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University in Frankfurt.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On Digital "Re-Evaluation" or What is Digital Enlightenment
Today?
Part I: Mapping the Field of Digital Enhancement
Chapter 1. The Enlightenment App Does Not Need to be Invented or What is
Digital Enhancement?
Chapter 2. On the Enlightened Gaze or What is Aesthetic Critique?
Part II: The Critical-Theoretical Microanalysis of the Present Digital Time
or on the Enlightenment Test
Chapter 3. On Today's "Serene Asceticism" After Nietzsche
Chapter 4. Knowledge/Power, Affect/Life Formation: On The Affect- and
Power-Sensitive Janus Face of Subjectivity in Digital Enhancement after
Foucault
Chapter 5. On the De-Reifying Test: The Janus face of Subjectivity in
Digital Enhancement in Terms of Affective Imaginary Reification
Part III: When Scenes of Affect-Centered Power Relations can be the
Beginning of the Subject's "Flight"
Chapter 6. Updating the Resources
Chapter 7. The Basic Method: How Enlightened Stumbling Blocks Can Activate
An Intrasubjective Communication
Chapter 8. Activating in General: A Procedure of Translation
Chapter 9. Activating Specifically: Realizing that "Flight Is an Option"
Conclusion: Aesthetic Critique of Ourselves: Relationality, Structural
Epistemic Discrimination, and Structural Epistemic Anti-Discrimination