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Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
Marco Deseriis
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Description for Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816694877
SKU
V9780816694877
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About Marco Deseriis
Marco Deseriis is assistant professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern University.
Reviews for Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
Unusual and distinctive... A thorough, well-informed, tightly argued criticism of the political implications of deconstructionist thought. -Anarchist Studies Marco Deseriis's learned and lively account of the improper name carefully considers the history, political reach, and symbolic power afforded by the alias by drawing on a rich set of examples, from Ned Ludd to Anonymous. The book's optic opens wide ... Read more