More than mere whistleblowers, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are exemplary figures who are inventing new political practices and calling old conceptions of the state and citizenship into question.
Author(s): Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 128
City: Stanford
Copyright
CONTENTS
Introduction: Something Is Happening
Novelty
Reaction
Homage
Sites
PART I Conditions and Circumstances
1. Democracy, Privacy, and Civil Liberties
Freedoms, Private Life, and Surveillance
The Call for Democracy and State Logic
Radicalizing the Call for Democracy
2. Dismantling the Law
3. Politics, Sovereignty, Exception
Incompleteness
The Exception
Statelessness
PART II Defying the Law
What We Are
A New Political Arena
Civil Disobedience
Publicness
Responsibility
Another Way
PART III New Political Subjects
4. Anonymity, Public Space, and Democracy
Choice
Public Space and Democratic Space
Being Anonymous
Democratizing Access to the Space of Contestation
Destabilizing Institutions
Scattering
Duplicity
Affirming Conflictuality
5. Flight and the Politics of Belonging
The Nonpolitical Foundations of Political Theory
The Contract
Cohabitation
Depoliticization
The Power of Sedition
Rogues
Belonging
Implications
A Democratic Critique of the law
Departure
6. Escaping Citizenship
Counter-Subjects
Life-or-Death
The Future
7. Denationalizing Minds
Borders
Imagination
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2-3
Part 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
