Journal article
Transparency and hypercapitalism
Pages 64 to 67
Cite this article
- HAN, Byung-Chul,
- Han, Byung-Chul.
- Han, B.-C.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0064
Cite this article
- Han, B.-C.
- Han, Byung-Chul.
- HAN, Byung-Chul,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0064
English
In the 18th century, Bentham imagined a prison wherein the inmates would be watched over by an all-seeing guardian. In our digital panopticon, we no longer are mere inmates: we actively participate in its making. And nobody seems to mind. Not so long ago, in Germany, people took the streets against a State-sponsored census. Now we spontaneously share our data with the apparatuses of capture set in place by and for hypercapitalism.