<i>Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain</i> by Mark Vareschi

Kahan, Lee

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“…Today anonymity in public communications is the exception, but there was once a time when it was instead the rule. Three quarters of eighteenth-century novels were either anonymous or pseudonymous [Paku 2015: 1; see also Mullan 2007;Vareschi 2018]. 2 So were the vast majority of political letters and pamphlets of that time, the most famous today being those concerning the ratification of the US Constitution [Shalev 2003;Ekstrand and Jeyaram 2011], with "Publius" [Hamilton, Madison, and Jay 1787-1788/1961] sparring with "Brutus," the "Federal Farmer," and such like [Storing 1981].…”

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Anonymous Solidarity in Social Movements

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2023

Arch. eur. sociol.

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There are many reasons you may want to make your contributions to public debates anonymously, and there are many reasons you may want to act in solidarity with others. Why might people engaged in social movements want to do both at the same time? “Anonymous solidarity”—symbolized by a great many protestors wearing one and the same iconic Guy Fawkes mask—signifies not only solidarity (“we are as one”) but also multiplicity (“we are many”) and interchangeability of each for the other (“for every one of us who falls, ten more will take our place”). The latter two features make a movement more likely to succeed, the former by rendering it stronger and the latter by rendering it more robust. A raft of evidence shows that people are more likely to participate in collective action that is more likely to succeed, even if their own participation is in no way essential for its success.

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Section: Why Anonymous?mentioning

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Anonymous Solidarity in Social Movements

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2023

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Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Mark Vareschi

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