The art of revolt : Snowden, Assange, Manning / Geoffroy de Lagasnerie.
2017
K3269 .L3713 2017 (Mapit)
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Uniform Title
Art de la révolte. English
Title
The art of revolt : Snowden, Assange, Manning / Geoffroy de Lagasnerie.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Description
120 pages ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : something is happening
I. Conditions and circumstances. Democracy, privacy, and civil liberties
Dismantling the law
Politics, sovereignty, exception
II. Defying the law
III. New political subjects. Anonymity, public space, and democracy
Flight and the politics of belonging
Escaping citizenship
Denationalizing minds.
I. Conditions and circumstances. Democracy, privacy, and civil liberties
Dismantling the law
Politics, sovereignty, exception
II. Defying the law
III. New political subjects. Anonymity, public space, and democracy
Flight and the politics of belonging
Escaping citizenship
Denationalizing minds.
Summary
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than that. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are exemplars who have reinvented an art of revolt. Consciously or not, they have inaugurated a new form of political action and a new identity for the political subject. Anonymity as practiced by WikiLeaks and the flight and requests for asylum of Snowden and Assange break with traditional forms of democratic protest. Yet we can hardly dismiss them as acts of cowardice. Rather, as Lagasnerie suggests, such solitary choices challenge us to question classic modes of collective action, calling old conceptions of the state and citizenship into question and inviting us to reformulate the language of critical philosophy. In the process, he pays homage to the actions and lives of these three figures. -- Provided by publisher.
Language Note
Translation of: L'art de la révolte.
Translated from the French.
Translated from the French.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120).
Translation of
Lagasnerie, Geoffroy de. Art de la révolte. [Paris] : Fayard, [2015]
Available in Other Form
Online version: Lagasnerie, Geoffroy de. Art of revolt. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017
Call Number
K3269 .L3713 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781503600010 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1503600017 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781503603325 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1503603326 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781503603240 (e-book)
1503600017 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781503603325 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1503603326 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781503603240 (e-book)
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