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SUMMARY:Cultural History of Transparency - Clare Birchall (King's College 
 London) and Daniel Juette (NYU / Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Olivier Driessens
DESCRIPTION:Clare Birchall (King's College London) and Daniel Jütte (NYU/
  Cambridge)\n\nAbstract of Clare Birchall: This short book attempts to que
 stion modes of sharing and watching to rethink political subjectivity beyo
 nd that which is enabled and enforced by the current data regime. It ident
 ifies and examines a “shareveillant” subjectivity: a form configured b
 y the sharing and watching that subjects have to withstand and enact in th
 e contemporary data assemblage. Looking at government open and closed data
  as case studies\, this book demonstrates how “shareveillance” produce
 s an anti-political role for the public. In describing shareveillance as\,
  after Jacques Rancière\, a distribution of the (digital) sensible\, this
  article posits a politico-ethical injunction to cut into the share and fl
 ow of data in order to arrange a more enabling assemblage of data and its 
 affects. In order to interrupt shareveillance\, this book borrows a concep
 t from Édouard Glissant and his concern with raced otherness to imagine w
 hat a “right to opacity” might mean in the digital context. To assert 
 this right is not to endorse the individual subject in her sovereignty and
  solitude\, but rather to imagine a collective political subjectivity and 
 relationality according to the important question of what it means to “s
 hare well” beyond the veillant expectations of the state.\nAbstract of D
 aniel Juette: Using the pre-circulated opening chapter of my book The Age 
 of Secrecy: Jews\, Christians\, and the Economy of Secrets (1400–1800) a
 s a starting point\, I will make a few\, brief remarks about my work (as a
  historian) on the subject of secrecy and openness. I argue that there was
  a powerful notion of ‘good’ secrecy in the early modern period and I 
 use the case of Jewish-Christian relations to show what this meant in prac
 tice and which opportunities arose from this “economy of secrets.” My 
 current project deals with the history of transparency\, but comes from a 
 rather different perspective: in this project\, I am interested in the mat
 erial experience of transparency\, and I pay particular attention to the h
 istory and changing meanings of architectural glass. If there is time\, I 
 hope to say a few words about this new project as well.\n
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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