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This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society, where personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies, exploring how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world.
Throughout six focused chapters, the book explores the transformation of community bonds, the exhibition of intimacy online, and the rise of emotion-driven politics. It reveals how the constant sharing of private life creates a society dominated by the present moment, where fleeting connections replace deeper relationships and reason is subordinated to emotional impulses, leading to populist and sovereigntist tendencies. Drawing on lucid analysis of the dialectics of the state, the community, machine-based interaction, and the loss of intimacy, it thus offers valuable and timely insights into the changing nature of social relationships in late modernity.
This timely analysis will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and philosophy, as well as researchers in the social sciences more broadly with interests in understanding the social implications of digital culture.
Title: Public Intimacy
Format: Hardback Book
Release Date: 01 Apr 2026
Type: Carlo Bordoni
Sku: 3587822
Catalogue No: 9781041238607
Category: Society & Culture
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