Surfing the Public Square: On Worldlessness, Social Media, and the Dissolution of the Polis
This paper employs Hannah Arendt’s characterization of the social, which lacks location and mandates conformity, to evaluate social media’s: a) challenge to the polis, b) relationship to the social, b) influence on private space, d) impact on public space, and e) virus-like capacity to capture, mimi...
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De Gruyter
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Open Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil.2019.2.issue-1/opphil-2019-0048/opphil-2019-0048.xml?format=INT |