​The Collective was delighted to convene an interdisciplinary group for a salon on the role of privacy and the unaccountability of the self in the good life and a healthy society.

​Lowry Pressly (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University) drew on his book The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life to lay out his fresh account of privacy and elaborate upon unanswered questions in privacy discourse. His account builds on an eclectic mix of thinkers including Arendt, Nietzsche, and Borges. The Collective engaged in a moderated discussion that explored the implications of privacy on flourishing in the machine intelligence age, memory, leisure, moral responsibility, and a reenchanted worldview.

To see some of the topics discussed, see our discussion prompts here.