Privacy and Utopia
A History
Book • 2024
Privacy and Utopia explores the intellectual history of privacy, tracing its decline from 1890 to 1950 as a product of mature 20th-century philosophies.
The book connects privacy to decentralization, highlighting its importance in an increasingly connected, urban, and planned world.
It examines the literary movement of modernism and the emergence of dystopia as a challenge to utopian fiction and centralizing attempts.
Centralization is portrayed as the unifying principle behind welfare-warfare governments, central banking, and the rise of the intelligentsia.
The book uncovers the battle of ideas reshaping assumptions about human nature and society, leading to privacy becoming more desired but difficult to attain.
The book connects privacy to decentralization, highlighting its importance in an increasingly connected, urban, and planned world.
It examines the literary movement of modernism and the emergence of dystopia as a challenge to utopian fiction and centralizing attempts.
Centralization is portrayed as the unifying principle behind welfare-warfare governments, central banking, and the rise of the intelligentsia.
The book uncovers the battle of ideas reshaping assumptions about human nature and society, leading to privacy becoming more desired but difficult to attain.
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