Journal article
Tyrannical transparency
- By Emmanuel Alloa
- and Yves Citton
Pages 47 to 54
Cite this article
- ALLOA, Emmanuel
- and CITTON, Yves,
- Alloa, Emmanuel.
- et al.
- Alloa, E.
- and Citton, Y.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0047
Cite this article
- Alloa, E.
- and Citton, Y.
- Alloa, Emmanuel.
- et al.
- ALLOA, Emmanuel
- and CITTON, Yves,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0047
English
The ideal of transparency imposes itself as obvious. Any form of opacity looks suspicious: it must hide corruption, nepotism or misdeeds. We attempt to take some distance from this categorical imperative of universal transparence, by shedding light on a number of its costs, dangers and collateral damages.