An aesthetic critique of digital enhancement : government of the self and desire /

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Author / Creator:Bianchi, Sarah, 1986- author.
Imprint:Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]
Description:xxi, 289 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13293611
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ISBN:9781666928310
1666928313
9781666928327
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: Bianchi, Sarah, 1986- Aesthetic critique of digital enhancement Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666928327
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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.

Physical Description:xxi, 289 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781666928310
1666928313
9781666928327