Author: Marco Deseriis
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, they are soon appropriated for different and sometimes diverging purposes. This book examines the tension arising from struggles for control of a pseudonym’s symbolic power. Deseriis provides five fascinating and widely varying case studies. Ned Ludd was the legendary and eponymous leader of the English Luddites, textile workers who threatened the destruction of industrial machinery and then advanced a variety of economic and political demands. Alan Smithee—an alias coined by Hollywood film directors in 1969 in order to disown films that were recut by producers—became a contested signature and was therefore no longer effective to signal prevarication to Hollywood insiders. Monty Cantsin was an “open pop star” created by U.S. and Canadian artists in the late 1970s to critique bourgeois notions of authorship, but its communal character was compromised by excessive identification with individual users of the name. The Italian media activists calling themselves Luther Blissett, aware of the Cantsin experience, implemented measures to prevent individuals from assuming the alias, which was used to author media pranks, sell apocryphal manuscripts to publishers, fabricate artists and artworks, and author best-selling novels. The longest chapter here is devoted to the contemporary “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous, which protests censorship and restricted access to information and information technologies. After delving into a rich philosophical debate on community among those who have nothing in common, the book concludes with a reflection on how the politics of improper names affects present-day anticapitalist social movements such as Occupy and 15-M.
Improper Names
Author: Marco Deseriis
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, they are soon appropriated for different and sometimes diverging purposes. This book examines the tension arising from struggles for control of a pseudonym’s symbolic power. Deseriis provides five fascinating and widely varying case studies. Ned Ludd was the legendary and eponymous leader of the English Luddites, textile workers who threatened the destruction of industrial machinery and then advanced a variety of economic and political demands. Alan Smithee—an alias coined by Hollywood film directors in 1969 in order to disown films that were recut by producers—became a contested signature and was therefore no longer effective to signal prevarication to Hollywood insiders. Monty Cantsin was an “open pop star” created by U.S. and Canadian artists in the late 1970s to critique bourgeois notions of authorship, but its communal character was compromised by excessive identification with individual users of the name. The Italian media activists calling themselves Luther Blissett, aware of the Cantsin experience, implemented measures to prevent individuals from assuming the alias, which was used to author media pranks, sell apocryphal manuscripts to publishers, fabricate artists and artworks, and author best-selling novels. The longest chapter here is devoted to the contemporary “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous, which protests censorship and restricted access to information and information technologies. After delving into a rich philosophical debate on community among those who have nothing in common, the book concludes with a reflection on how the politics of improper names affects present-day anticapitalist social movements such as Occupy and 15-M.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, they are soon appropriated for different and sometimes diverging purposes. This book examines the tension arising from struggles for control of a pseudonym’s symbolic power. Deseriis provides five fascinating and widely varying case studies. Ned Ludd was the legendary and eponymous leader of the English Luddites, textile workers who threatened the destruction of industrial machinery and then advanced a variety of economic and political demands. Alan Smithee—an alias coined by Hollywood film directors in 1969 in order to disown films that were recut by producers—became a contested signature and was therefore no longer effective to signal prevarication to Hollywood insiders. Monty Cantsin was an “open pop star” created by U.S. and Canadian artists in the late 1970s to critique bourgeois notions of authorship, but its communal character was compromised by excessive identification with individual users of the name. The Italian media activists calling themselves Luther Blissett, aware of the Cantsin experience, implemented measures to prevent individuals from assuming the alias, which was used to author media pranks, sell apocryphal manuscripts to publishers, fabricate artists and artworks, and author best-selling novels. The longest chapter here is devoted to the contemporary “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous, which protests censorship and restricted access to information and information technologies. After delving into a rich philosophical debate on community among those who have nothing in common, the book concludes with a reflection on how the politics of improper names affects present-day anticapitalist social movements such as Occupy and 15-M.
The Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950
Author:
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor Or Management Field
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unfair labor practices
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unfair labor practices
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Improper Names
Author: Marco Deseriis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781452945064
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781452945064
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns
106-1 Committee Print: Witness Deposition Testimony, Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns, S. Prt. 106-30, Part IV of X, 1999
Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure ...
Author: Arthur Percival Will
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Investigation on Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with the 1996 Federal Election Campaign
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with the 1996 Federal Election Campaign
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description