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Hacker Politics and Publics
In recent months, much of the world’s attention has turned to Anonymous, the rhizomatic, digitally based protest movement, and WikiLeaks, the tightly controlled organization famous for facilitating whistle-blowing and publishing classified and secret…Tahrir: Ends of Circulation
These are confusing times in Cairo . . . and the greater Middle East. To write from within a revolution for publication months hence, when some now dominant strands may recede and others that might prevail are barely visible at present, is necessarily…Revolutionary Tactics, Media Ecologies, and Repressive States
Story 1: A small group of activists, taking advantage of a deregulated Internet, begin to publish independent, sometimes critical, views of a repressive regime. One of these activists, a leading young politician who has been the subject of a previous…Editor's Letter
Public Culture is in the midst of a transition. The journal’s home has moved to the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. We have a new editorial collective, composed mainly of emerging leaders in anthropology, history, media studies…Patience, Inwardness, and Self-Knowledge in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
Patience is a peculiar quality, especially when viewed from a moral or political perspective. By itself it appears to have no moral or political content, in the ways that telling the truth and treating people fairly clearly do.