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This book examines the paradox of digital enhancement: we simultaneously desire to be governed by the logic of perfection and to be self-governed. Through genealogical and aesthetic critique, Sarah Bianchi questions the costs of our digital present and conceptualizes how to critically construct an enlightened agency.
List of contents
Introduction: On Digital "Re-Evaluation" or What is Digital Enlightenment Today?
Part I: Mapping the Field of Digital Enhancement
Chapter 1. The Enlightenment App Does Not Need to be Invented or What is Digital Enhancement?
Chapter 2. On the Enlightened Gaze or What is Aesthetic Critique?
Part II: The Critical-Theoretical Microanalysis of the Present Digital Time or on the Enlightenment Test
Chapter 3. On Today's "Serene Asceticism" After Nietzsche
Chapter 4. Knowledge/Power, Affect/Life Formation: On The Affect- and Power-Sensitive Janus Face of Subjectivity in Digital Enhancement after Foucault
Chapter 5. On the De-Reifying Test: The Janus face of Subjectivity in Digital Enhancement in Terms of Affective Imaginary Reification
Part III: When Scenes of Affect-Centered Power Relations can be the Beginning of the Subject's "Flight"
Chapter 6. Updating the Resources
Chapter 7. The Basic Method: How Enlightened Stumbling Blocks Can Activate An Intrasubjective Communication
Chapter 8. Activating in General: A Procedure of Translation
Chapter 9. Activating Specifically: Realizing that "Flight Is an Option"
Conclusion: Aesthetic Critique of Ourselves: Relationality, Structural Epistemic Discrimination, and Structural Epistemic Anti-Discrimination
About the author
Sarah Bianchi is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University in Frankfurt.
Summary
This book examines the paradox of digital enhancement: we simultaneously desire to be governed by the logic of perfection and to be self-governed. Through genealogical and aesthetic critique, Sarah Bianchi questions the costs of our digital present and conceptualizes how to critically construct an enlightened agency.
