Anonymous Meaning
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Anonymous
Author: Thomas DeGloma
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2023-09-07
A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump’s first impeachment, an anonymous group of hackers compromised more than 77 million Sony accounts, and best-selling author Elena Ferrante resolutely continued to hide her real name and identity. In Anonymous, Thomas DeGloma draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity. What is anonymity, and why, under various circumstances, do individuals act anonymously? How do individuals accomplish anonymity? How do they use it, and, in some situations, how is it imposed on them? To answer these questions, DeGloma tackles anonymity thematically, dedicating each chapter to a distinct type of anonymous action, including ones he dubs protective, subversive, institutional, and ascribed. Ultimately, he argues that anonymity and pseudonymity are best understood as performances in which people obscure personal identities as they make meaning for various audiences. As they bring anonymity and pseudonymity to life, DeGloma shows, people work to define the world around them to achieve different goals and objectives.
Anonymous
How anonymous can someone stay when love interferes? Cheated on by her husband, ridiculed as a bore by her best friend... Madeline has had enough of her old life and takes her divorce as a new beginning. She never wants to make herself vulnerable again- never again to become emotionally dependent on a man. An encounter with an attractive tattoo artist unexpectedly presents the chance for the first one-night stand of her life. When Madeline realizes that the auspicious night is not a one-off event, but the beginning of a passionate affair, she sets one condition: She only wants to continue seeing him if they promise to remain strangers. No names, no details, no commitments. Anonymous. Little does she know that the mysterious stranger's name is Jeremy and that he accepts the offer of an anonymous affair mainly because, as the single father of a small son, he has no time for a serious relationship either. Fascinated by the tingling passion, which is made even more exciting by the anonymity, the two embark on the greatest adventure of their lives - and have no idea that the demons of their pasts are already hot on their heels. This book is a stand-alone and complete 38k word novel with an HEA ending!
Everywhere and Nowhere
Author: Mark Vareschi
language: en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date: 2018-12-11
A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital age Everywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and mediation in the publication and circulation of eighteenth-century British literature—before the Romantic creation of the “author”—and what this means for literary criticism. Anonymous authorship was typical of the time, yet literary scholars and historians have been generally unable to account for it as anything more than a footnote or curiosity. Mark Vareschi shows the entangled relationship between mediation and anonymity, revealing the nonhuman agency of the printed text. Drawing richly on quantitative analysis and robust archival work, Vareschi brings together philosophy, literary theory, and media theory in a trenchant analysis, uncovering a history of textual engagement and interpretation that does not hinge on the known authorial subject. In discussing anonymous poetry, drama, and the novel along with anonymously published writers such as Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, and Walter Scott, he unveils a theory of mediation that renews broader questions about agency and intention. Vareschi argues that textual intentionality is a property of nonhuman, material media rather than human subjects alone, allowing the anonymous literature of the eighteenth century to speak to contemporary questions of meaning in the philosophy of language. Vareschi closes by exploring dubious claims about the death of anonymity and the reexplosion of anonymity with the coming of the digital. Ultimately, Everywhere and Nowhere reveals the long history of print anonymity so central to the risks and benefits of the digital culture.