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Book of Anonymity

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Anon Collective
2020
Published by: Punctum Books
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Anonymity 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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Donation Page, Title Page

pp. 1-5

Preface: Writing Anonymity

pp. 6-9

Copyright

pp. 10

Contents

pp. 11-14

A. Intro

Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity

pp. 15-34

Artistic Research on Anonymity

pp. 35-68

B. Reconfiguration

Anonymity and Transgression: Caste, Social Reform, and Blood Donation in India

pp. 69-87

Anonymity: The Politicisation of a Concept

pp. 88-109

USAE

pp. 110-115

Big Data’s End Run around Anonymity and Consent

pp. 116-141

A List of Famous Artists Who Used to Be Invigilators

pp. 142-150

Anonymity as Everyday Phenomenon and as a Topic of Research

pp. 151-166

Anonymity on Demand: The Great Offshore

pp. 167-186

C. Assault

DNA Works! Merging Genetics and the Digital Realm

pp. 187-209

Sanitary Policy and the Policy of Anonymity: Observations on a Game on Endocrine Disruptors

pp. 210-225

Where Do the Data Live? Anonymity and Neighborhood Networks

pp. 226-254

Fraught Platform Governmentality: Anonymity, Content Moderation, and Regulatory Strategies over Yik Yak

pp. 255-274

Anonymity: Obsolescence and Desire

pp. 275-285

Policing Normality: Police Work, Anonymity, and a Sociology of the Mundane

pp. 286-292

D. Weapon

Amazonian Flesh: How to Hang in Trees during Strike?

pp. 293-305

Proximity, Distance, and State Powers: Policing Practices and the Regulation of Anonymity

pp. 306-325

Dual Reality: (Un)Observed Magic in the Workplace

pp. 236-335

A Provisional Manifesto for Invigilator-Friendly Artworks, or Your Artwork Is an Invigilator’s Labor Conditions: Informally Sourced from Security Guards at an Art Gallery in Central London

pp. 336-339

Care or Control? Police, Youth, and Mutual Anonymity

pp. 340-345

She Remembers

pp. 346-354

E. Delight

Collective Pleasures of Anonymity: From Public Restrooms to 4chan and Chatroulette

pp. 355-378

Transformella Malor Ikeae: InnerCity Ikeality [4.4.6.11]

pp. 379-393

Authenticity

pp. 394-400

Longing for a Selfless Self and other Ambivalences of Anonymity: A Personal Account

pp. 401-423

Speak their Endless Names

pp. 424-432

Bitcoin Anonymous? Of Trust in Code and Paper

pp. 433-446

Anonymity Workshop

pp. 447-465

List of Figures

pp. 466-469

List of Artworks

pp. 470

Contributors

pp. 471-480

Citation Guide

pp. 481-485

Acknowledgments

pp. 486-487

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