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Picador
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
208 pages
ISBN: 0312554842
EAN: 9780312554842
Kindle: B007TJ5BIG
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Non-Fiction
American essayist and Harper’s contributing editor Garret
Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our
strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.
Body scans at the airport, candid pics on
Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a
surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have
an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of
our lives. The threshold between privacy and exposure
becomes more permeable by the minute. But what happens to
our private selves when we cannot escape scrutiny, and to
our public personas when they pass from our
control?
In this wide-ranging, penetrating
addition to the Big Ideas//Small Books series, and in his
own unmistakable voice, Garret Keizer considers the moral
dimensions of privacy in relation to issues of social
justice, economic inequality, and the increasing
commoditization of the global marketplace. Though acutely
aware of the digital threat to privacy rights, Keizer
refuses to see privacy in purely technological terms or as
an essentially legalistic value. Instead, he locates privacy
in the human capacity for resistance and in the sustainable
society "with liberty and justice for all."
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