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Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals - Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals - Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and
politics In recent years, Arab activists have confronted
authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos
and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek
El-Ariss situates these critiques of power within a pervasive
culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and
political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by
digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.
Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt
and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The
Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to
pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective
scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological
and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the
digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as
the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and
intellectual debate. Theorizing the rise of "the leaking subject"
who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly
political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness,
virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the
public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of
scandal. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of
Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how
concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual,
the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes
of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
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