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Book of Anonymity

  • Anon Collective (editor)
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TitleBook of Anonymity
ContributorAnon Collective (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0315.1.00
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/book-of-anonymity/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAnon Collective
Publisherpunctum books
Publication placeEarth, Milky Way
Published on2021-03-04
ISBN978-1-953035-30-1 (Paperback)
978-1-953035-31-8 (PDF)
Long abstractAnonymity is highly contested, marking the limits of civil liberties and legality. Digital technologies of communication, identification, and surveillance put anonymity to the test. They challenge how anonymity can be achieved, and dismantled. Everyday digital practices and claims for transparency shape the ways in which anonymity is desired, done, and undone. The Book of Anonymity includes contributions by artists, anthropologists, sociologists, media scholars, and art historians. It features ethnographic research, conceptual work, and artistic practices conducted in France, Germany, India, Iran, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. From police to hacking cultures, from Bitcoin to sperm donation, from Yik-Yak to Amazon and IKEA, from DNA to Big Data — thirty essays address how the reconfiguration of anonymity transforms our concepts of privacy, property, self, kin, addiction, currency, and labor.
Print length486 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions178 x 254 mm | 7" x 10" (Paperback)
LCCN2020951163
THEMA
  • URY
  • URD
  • JBCT1
BIC
  • URD
  • UYZ
BISAC
  • COM079010
  • COM079000
  • SOC071000
Keywords
  • Anonymity
  • Data Security,
  • Surveillance
  • Personhood
  • Privacy
  • Digital Cultures
  • Art-Science Collaboration
Funding
Contents

Frontmatter

(pp. 1–5)
  • Anon Collective
  • Anon Collective
  • Götz Bachmann
  • Julien McHardy
  • Michi Knecht
  • Nils Zurawski
  • Daniela Silvestrin
  • Andreas Broeckmann
  • Jacob Copeman
  • Dwaipayan Banerjee
  • Thorsten Thiel

USAE

(pp. 110–115)
  • Heath Bunting
  • Helen Nissenbaum
  • Solon Barocas
  • Randi Heinrichs
  • Aram Bartholl
  • Paula Bialski
  • Simon Farid

She Remembers

(pp. 346–353)
  • Parastou Forouhar
  • Transformella Malor Ikeae (cared for by JP Raether)

Authenticity

(pp. 394–400)
  • Amelie Baumann
  • Gerald Raunig

Anonymity Workshop

(pp. 447–462)
  • Stéphane Degoutin
  • Martin De Bie
  • Vadim Bernard

Backmatter

(pp. 466–486)
  • Anon Collective