Issue No.
36
July 2010
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| Welcome to July’s review of books |
 Tim Black
Today, lots of people and campaign groups are agitated by the tsunami of incursions into our private lives, but they lack an overarching manifesto defending privacy. That could soon change, argues Josie Appleton in this month’s spiked review of books, where she describes Wolfgang Sofsky’s Privacy: A Manifesto as one of the finest modern defences of freedom and autonomy. Exploring how the undermining of our privacy is not simply an external imposition but something we sometimes implicitly invite - with revelation being the flipside of surveillance - Appleton says it is time we launched a serious defence of the all-important unpoliced space. Also this month, we have Neil Davenport on why some people are getting misty-eyed for the GDR, Tim Black on the erosion of the Enlightenment by its so-called defenders, Daniel Ben-Ami on why banker-bashing doesn’t help us understand the recession, and more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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