Doxa at Large
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…The Ethics of Self-Rule: Violence and Masculinity in Contemporary South Africa
In the context of a near national panic concerning violence in South Africa, the question being posed is, what does it take to be a modern South African man? Aernout Zevenbergen (2008, xxvi), writing about violence and masculinity in Africa, asks, “What…The Paradox of Nonviolence
Early in July of 1937, a well-known Nazi journalist, Schutzstaffel (SS) officer, and adviser to Adolf Hitler named Roland von Strunk visited Gandhi at his ashram in Segaon. As befitted a National Socialist concerned with the cultivation of a nation’s…