A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. What does it mean to have a private life? In an age of constant sharing, surveillance and blurred boundaries, can privacy even survive? On the podcast today, cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins draws on the themes of her latest book, Strangers and Intimates, to trace the meaning of privacy throughout history.
From the strict separations of ancient Athens through the moral codes of the Victorian home to the feminist rallying cry that the personal is political and right into the uncharted territory of our digital age, Jenkins speaks to Demos fellow Carl Miller about how privacy shaped the modern world and why it remains crucial for our personal and collective freedom. Let's join Carl now with more. Alright, well welcome to Intelligence Squared, everyone. I'm Carl Miller and our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins. She's a writer, cultural historian, broadcaster, author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles, How Treasures of the Past End Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There.
She's a former Honorary Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and a former yeah She's a former honorary fellow in the history of art at the University of Edinburgh and a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the LSE. She wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series A History of Secrecy and Contracts of Silence about the rise of non-disclosure agreements. And today we'll be discussing her latest book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life. which traces the meaning of privacy from the ancient times all the way up to our digital present, exploring our privacy shaped the modern world and why it remains crucial for our personal and collective freedom today.
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