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Transparency and Critical Theory

The Becoming-Transparent of Ideology

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Authors:
  1. Jorge I. Valdovinos

    1. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Shows why ideology is crucial for any deep understanding of our contemporary moment
  • Offers a critique of transparency across disciplines
  • Expands the horizons of media and communication studies

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Is the World Turning More Transparent?

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    Pages 1-42

  3. Defining Transparency

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    Pages 43-80

  4. Ideology, Hegemony, Neoliberalism, and Critique

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    Pages 81-140

  5. Discourse, Concepts, and Critique: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

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    Pages 141-183

  6. A Society of Transparency, an Economy of Attention

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    Pages 185-236

  7. The Death and Resurrection of Transparency

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    Pages 237-302

  8. Heidegger and Transparency: Between Truth and Attention

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    Pages 303-345

  9. Transparency as Aesthetic Fetish: Planar Intensifications at the Bauhaus

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    Pages 347-384

  10. Conclusion: Towards a Semantic Topology

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    Pages 385-410

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 411-422
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About this book

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality—a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy. 

Reviews

“Just about everyone affirms the importance of transparency, but you will hesitate about unthinkingly doing so after reading this book. Jorge Valdovinos moves between fields and disciplines with remarkable fluency to illuminate the ideological implications of transparency talk. If this is what post-disciplinary communication and media theory looks like, give me more. A brilliant piece of critical scholarship”

—Sean Phelan, Massey University, NZ

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Jorge I. Valdovinos

About the author

Jorge I. Valdovinos is Adjunct Professor for Media and Communications and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Sydney, Australia

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