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The Black Scholar, Volume 47, Issue 3, August 2017.
Powerlines, 2015
As social/political crises erupt around the world, people are increasingly turning to the Interne... more As social/political crises erupt around the world, people are increasingly turning to the Internet to act against injustices, highlighting the capacities of digital platforms in social justice battles. In this essay, I explore hacktivism as a space for fighting repression by identifying two modes of freedom that emerge within this practice: virality and imperceptibility. Examining the work of the controversial hacktivist group Anonymous in Tunisia during the 2011 uprisings, this essay explains how virality and imperceptibility work as weapons against control societies. Ultimately, I argue that in order to understand the subversive nature of virality and imperceptibility, we must first see these forces as desirable, and this re-articulation offers one point of departure for imagining liberatory alternatives to repressive social structures.
The Black Scholar, Volume 47, Issue 3, August 2017.
Powerlines, 2015
As social/political crises erupt around the world, people are increasingly turning to the Interne... more As social/political crises erupt around the world, people are increasingly turning to the Internet to act against injustices, highlighting the capacities of digital platforms in social justice battles. In this essay, I explore hacktivism as a space for fighting repression by identifying two modes of freedom that emerge within this practice: virality and imperceptibility. Examining the work of the controversial hacktivist group Anonymous in Tunisia during the 2011 uprisings, this essay explains how virality and imperceptibility work as weapons against control societies. Ultimately, I argue that in order to understand the subversive nature of virality and imperceptibility, we must first see these forces as desirable, and this re-articulation offers one point of departure for imagining liberatory alternatives to repressive social structures.