*Book of Anonymity*
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/book-of-anonymity/
is now out with punctum books (released March 2021).
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.
Edited by the Anon Collective, the volume presents contributions by
Anon, Götz Bachmann, Dwaipayan Banerjee, Solon Barocas, Aram Bartholl,
Amelie Baumann, Paula Bialski, Andreas Broeckmann, Heath Bunting, Martin
De Bie, Bureau d’études, Jacob Copeman, Abigail Curlew, Stéphane
Degoutin, Simon Farid, Parastou Forouhar, Randi Heinrichs, Anna Henke,
Michi Knecht, knowbotiq, Gertraud Koch, Julien McHardy, Helen
Nissenbaum, Gerald Raunig, RYBN.ORG, Daniela Silvestrin, Thorsten Thiel,
Transformella, Daniël de Zeeuw, and Nils Zurawski.
For more info, check the publisher's press release
https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/book-of-anonymity/release/1
or go to punctum books
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/book-of-anonymity/
to buy the printed volume or download the free Open Access version.
For further information and review copies, please, contact Julien
McHardy <m...@julienmchardy.info>.
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