'Taking WikiLeaks as an illustrative example, Open 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy relate to one another, to the public and to publicity in our computerised visual cultures. It examines transparency as an ideology, the ideal of the free flow of information versus the fight over access to information and the intrinsic connection between publicity and secrecy. Does transparency only work in a liberating way? Cannot it equally have a concealing or controlling effect? Aren’t certain forms of transparency actually the manifestation of the banality of the contemporary spectacle, which revolves around pure display and the production of affects? What role do the media play in this?' (Back cover)
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Open - 2011/No.22 Transparency

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Onsite

Location code
REF.NAI
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

160

ISBN / ISSN

9789056628390

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Editorial - Jorinde SEIJDEL

The Fight over Transparency. From a Hierarchical to a Horizontal Organisation - Felix STALDER

Publicity and Secrecy. Variations on Intertwining Use - Stefan NOWOTNY

WikiLeaks. The Revolt of the Clerks, or Universality as Conspiracy - Boris GROYS

Know It All. WikiLeaks, Democracy and the Information Age - Jodi DEAN

Transparency as Cult WikiLeaks and Facebook - Jorinde SEIJDEL

WikiLeaks as an Editorial Problem. A Conversation with Geert Lovink and Merijn Oudenampsen - Willem van Weelden

Failed States - Jill MAGID

Selections from an Archive of Images of Economy - Zachary FORMWALT

Secrets of the See-Through Factory On Intervening in Opaque Transparency - Sven LUTTICKEN

Piercing The Veils of Identity Classes (From hand-eye co-ordination to corporate wealth) - Heath BUNTING

From Glass to One-Way Glass Shifting Meanings of Transparency, Openness and Privacy in Architecture - Roel GRIFFIOEN

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Open 22: Transparency. Publicity and Secrecy in the Age of WikiLeaks