6. The Eclipse of Humanism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Expository Society 1
4. Part One. Clearing the Ground
5. 1. George Orwell’s Big Brother 31
6. 2. The Surveillance State 54
7. 3. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon 80
8. Part Two. The Birth of the Expository Society
9. 4. Our Mirrored Glass Pavilion 107
10. 5. A Genealogy of the New Doppelgänger Logic 141
11. 6. The Eclipse of Humanism 166
12. Part Three. The Perils of Digital Exposure
13. 7. The Collapse of State, Economy, and Society 187
14. 8. The Mortification of the Self 217
15. 9. The Steel Mesh 234
16. Part Four. Digital Disobedience
17. 10. Virtual Democracy 253
18. 11. Digital Resistance 262
19. 12. Political Disobedience 280
20. Notes 285
21. Acknowledgments 347
22. Index 349