Emmanuel Alloa is Research Leader in Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and teaches aesthetics at the University of Paris 8. His work is located at the intersection of continental philosophy, aesthetics and social theory. He is the author of Resistance of the Sensible World. An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017).

Dieter Thomä is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and the author of Troublemakers: A Philosophy of "puer robustus" (2019). He specializes in political philosophy, aesthetics and phenomenology, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Getty Research Institute.

Features the work of a stellar list of contributors, including material from Umberto Eco

Mixes historical, theoretical, and empirically-grounded chapters with advanced scholarship - ensuring it is of relevance to both the uninitiated and the experienced academic

Furthers scholarship in this growing, cross-disciplinary field and will have an increasing impact on numerous related research agendas

Chapter 1. Introduction; Emmanuel Alloa & Dieter Thomä. - Chapter 2. Not so Wicked Leaks; Umberto Eco. - Part I. Transparency In The Making.- 3. Transparency; Emmanuel Alloa.- 4. Seeing It All, Doing It All, Saying It All; Dieter Thomä.- 5. The Dream of Transparency; Manfred Schneider.- 6. The Unbounded Confession; Noreen Khawaja.- 7. Seeing It All; Miran Božovi¿.- 8. ransparency, Humanism, and the Politics of the Future Before and After May '68; Stefanos Geroulanos.- Part II. Under the Crystal Dome.- 9. The Limits of Transparency; Amitai Etzioni.- 10. Publicity and Transparency; Sandrine Baume.- 11. Regulation and Transparency as Rituals of Distrust; Caspar Hirschi.-12. Not Individuals, Relations; Thomas Berns.- 13. Obfuscated Transparency; Dieter Mersch.- 14. The Privatization of Human Interests or, How Transparency Breeds Conformity; Thomas Docherty.- Part. III. From the Panopticon to the Selfie and Back.- 15. Transparency and Subjectivity; Vincent Kaufmann.- 16. Putting Oneself Out There; Jörg Metelmann & Thomas Telios.- 17. Interrupting Transparency; Clare Birchall.- 18. Virtual Transparency; Bernard E. Harcourt.- Index.