Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity

Julien McHardy is a sociologist of technology, curator, designer and publisher concerned with methods for working and thinking across different fields of expertise and experience. His work at the intersection of the arts, design, research and publishing is collaborative involving changing constellations of people and institutions. He co-founded the open access publisher Mattering Press and ScholarLed, a collective of academic led open access presses.

Michi Knecht is Professor for Social Anthropology and one of the speakers of the Worlds of Contradiction- Platform at Bremen University. Her research focuses on interconnections between knowledge practices and social forms. At the intersections of Anthropology and STS she has investigated reproductive technologies, political and religious movements, anonymity and new forms of kinship. With Michael Flitner and Friederike Gesing she has co-founded the Bremen NatureCultures Lab, a small think tank for new research designs in human-body, human-other species and human-environ- ment relations. Other Anonymity related Publications: “The Social Productivity of Anonymity” (ephemera 17/2, with Andreas Wittel and Götz Bachmann)

Nils Zurawski is a Social Anthropologist and Criminol- ogist, working at the University of Hamburg and has been researching widely on Surveillance, Identity, Security, Police, and Doping in Sports. He blogs (surveillance-studies.org) and runs the podcast “Berichte aus Panotopia” (notes from Panotopia). His latest publications include: Kritik des Anti-Doping (transcript 2019); Bodies as Evidence.Security, Knowledge, and Power (Duke 2018).