Synopsis "Book of Anonymity (in English)"
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 CONTENTSPrefaceIntroToward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of AnonymityArtistic Research on AnonymityReconfigurationAnonymity and Transgression: Caste, Social Reform, and Blood Donation in IndiaAnonymity: The Politicisation of a ConceptUSAEBig Data's End Run around Anonymity and ConsentA List of Famous Artists Who Used to Be InvigilatorsAnonymity as Everyday Phenomenon and as a Topic of ResearchAnonymity on Demand: The Great OffshoreAssaultDNA Works! Merging Genetics and the Digital RealmSanitary Policy and the Policy of Anonymity: Observations on a Game on Endocrine DisruptorsWhere Do the Data Live? Anonymity and Neighborhood NetworksFraught Platform Governmentality: Anonymity, Content Moderation, and Regulatory Strategies over Yik YakAnonymity: Obsolescence and DesirePolicing Normality: Police Work, Anonymity, and a Sociology of the MundaneWeaponAmazonian Flesh: How to Hang in Trees during Strike?Proximity, Distance, and State Powers: Policing Practices and the Regulation of AnonymityDual Reality: (Un)Observed Magic in the WorkplaceA 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 LondonCare or Control? Police, Youth, and Mutual AnonymityShe RemembersDelightCollective Pleasures of Anonymity: From Public Restrooms to 4chan and ChatrouletteTransformella Malor Ikeae: InnerCity Ikeality [4.4.6.11]AuthenticityLonging for a Selfless Self and other Ambivalences of Anonymity: A Personal AccountSpeak their Endless NamesBitcoin Anonymous? Of Trust in Code and PaperAnonymity Workshop
