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In)visible ghosts in the machine and the powers that bind: the relational securitization of anonymous / Cavelty , Myriam Dunn; Mark Daniel Jaeger

Cavelty , Myriam Dunn	Article
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This paper analyzes the formation and subsequent securitization of the digital protest movement Anonymous, highlighting the emergence of social antagonists from communication itself. In contrast to existing approaches that implicitly or explicitly conceptualize Othering (and securitization) as unidirectional process between (active) sender and (passive) receiver, an approach that is based on communication gives the “threat” a voice of its own. The concept proposed in this paper focuses on “designations” as communicating rules and attributes with regard to a government object. It delineates how designations give rise to the visibility of political entities and agency in the first place. Applying this framework, we can better understand the movement's path from a bunch of anonymous individuals to the collectivity “Anonymous,” posing a threat to certain bases of the state's ontological existence, its prerogative to secrecy, and challenging its claim to unrestrained surveillance. At the same time, the state's bases are implicated and reproduced in the way this conflict is constructed. The conflict not only (re)produces and makes visible “the state” as a social entity, but also changes or at least challenges the self-same entity's agency and legitimacy. Such a relational approach allows insights into conflict formation as dynamic social process.

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Invisible Ghosts ; Machine ; Relational Securitization ; Anonymous ; Digital Protest Movement ; Designations ;
Ontological Existence

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mahatma in the machine / Banerjee, Dwaipayan

Banerjee, Dwaipayan	Journal Article
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Comment on Skaria, Ajay. 2016. Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Ethics ; Non-violence ; Gandhi ; Political Theology ; Machine

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Women Vs the machine / Hayasaki, Erika

Hayasaki, Erika	Journal Article
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Internet ; Women ; Artificial Intelligence ; Sexist ; Machine ; Racist

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