This obscure thing called transparency

politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor

Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...

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Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

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The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy

"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...

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Duits | Engels | Frans | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Joop van Hezik Reconsidering Utopia

i have simply asked for permission

Joop van Hezik brings philosophy to life, in more ways than one. He shows that the ideology of `economic growth is the basis of our modern societies and economies, and even of our sustainable development policies. In this ideology people and nature seem to be merely instruments for economic growth. This results in destruction and the failure of sustainable development policies at all geographical levels. As Van Hezik clearly demonstrates, we need utopian thinking to reflect on the real values of...

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Engels | 221 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Studio nonfiXe, Vught | 2014

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George Steiner Universitas?

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Engels | Nederlands | 39 pagina's | Nexus Instituut, Tilburg | 2013

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Inside the politics of technology

agency and normativity in the co-production of technology and society

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Engels | 308 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2005

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Bruno Latour Facing Gaia

eight lectures on the new climatic regime

Fundamentele kritiek op het moderne westerse denken in relatie met het klimaatprobleem.

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Engels | 327 pagina's | Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, Medford, MA | 2017

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