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The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces Appearing Together

By Benjamin JJ Carpenter Copyright 2024
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space. The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. Marginalised and oppressed peoples continue to seek the transformation of our shared social world and... Read more

Introduction: The Vampire’s Masquerade 

1. Pathology and Mediation

2. The Dialectical Self and Subject

3. Rejecting Recognition: Responding to Critiques of the Recognitive Tradition

4. The Structuring of Public Space

5. Online Discourses of the Self: The Spatiality of Social Media and the Framing of the Online Persona

Conclusion: Against the Enclosure of Identity

Postscript: Flight into the Virtual

Biography

Benjamin JJ Carpenter is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His current research focuses on identity, spatiality, and internet communication technologies.   

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