Journal article

Transparency and hypercapitalism

Pages 64 to 67

Cite this article


  • Han, B.-C.
(2018). Transparency and Hypercapitalism. Multitudes, No 73(4), 64-67. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0064.

  • Han, Byung-Chul.
« Transparency and hypercapitalism ». Multitudes, 2018/4 No 73, 2018. p.64-67. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2018-4-page-64?lang=en.

  • HAN, Byung-Chul,
2018. Transparency and hypercapitalism. Multitudes, 2018/4 No 73, p.64-67. DOI : 10.3917/mult.073.0064. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2018-4-page-64?lang=en.

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.

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