Lęk intymności, czyli mówienie prawdy w dobie internetu

• Authors: Leszek Koczanowicz

Title variants

EN

Intimacy fear – the art of telling the truth in the Internet era

Abstracts

EN

In his late works Michel Foucault names parrhesia, an ability to tell the truth about oneself and the world, as one of the most significant categories. Parrhesia is crucial for both the democratic policy, as well as for an inner spiritual life. Foucault analyses both aspects of parrhesia in the context of ancient philosophy and Christianity. But whichever the context, pharresia is a difficult spiritual task causing a threat for those who practise it. It seems that today traditional categories have been switched and democratised parrhesia becomes a standard or even coercion, while the world of intimacy and privacy – a thing that ought to be feared and avoided. Key issue of the text is a question what happens to parrhesia in the democratic world of technology. The article searches for the answer to how new technologies, the social media above all, change the nature of parrhesia within our private lives and in the political arena.

Keywords

PL

parezja; prawda; internet; demokracja; boty

EN

parrhesia; truth; internet; democracy; bots

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 38-50

Contributors

author

Leszek Koczanowicz

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2018.101.04

Biblioteka Nauki

1853793