Digitality - Privacy - Aesthetics

Abstract

Covid-19 has not only kept many of us behind screens for much longer, but it has also made us realize afterward how much digitality had begun to change our notion of privacy long before the pandemic. Late modern subjects can't help but creatively juggle their identity, constantly ›curated‹ at the fluid boundary between private and public. By reminding public theology of the time and milieu in which it emerged, Shawn Copeland uncovers its ›blind spots‹. However, the public sphere is also the overlooked condition of the possibility for racist action and its subsequent suffering. In the context of »black culture«, Kevin Quashie places an »expressiveness of quiet« alongside an attention-seeking ›loud‹ public. Contrary to what one assumes, such expressiveness is not apolitical but recalls that each subject is ultimately ineffable.