Description: Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and information to extol privacy as a tool for living. Privacy, he argues, not only reinforces our capacities for play, self-discovery, connection, and trust, but also is vital to the search for meaning.
Brief description: Lowry Pressly is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point, Political Theory, and Public Books.
Review Quotes: We all feel beset by mechanized claims on our attention. If you feel like your very self is losing its coherence, this book will help you understand why. With grace and aplomb, Pressly shows that, under conditions where we are never fully alone and never fully with others, the basic terms of being are dissolving. And he gives us the materials for building shelter.--Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft