How long does it take to read The Transparency Society?
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han takes about 1 hour 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2012. 86 pages, about 23,650 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything -and everyone- has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. For transparency has a dark side that, ironically, has everything to do with a lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. Behind the apparent accessibility of knowledge lies the disappearance of privacy, homogenization, and the collapse of trust. The anxiety to accumulate ever more information does not necessarily produce more knowledge or faith. Technology creates the illusion of total containment and constant monitoring of information, but what we lack is adequate interpretation of the information. In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest and most pernicious of our contemporary mythologies."--
Subjects: Social control, Freedom of information, Internet, social aspects, Social aspects, Transparency, Self-disclosure
