Abstract
With the intensifying demand for transparency in government has come a dramatic increase in the number of spectacular public leaks that carry dramatic public consequences. This essay reviews how transparency has been considered an ideal of democratic theory and critical media scholarship and offers several psychoanalytic tenets for reading public demands for transparency. The essay then analyses discourse by and about WikiLeaks to illustrate how Julian Assange’s discourse results in a program of transparency that engages in destructive rituals of disavowal and exposure.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Review of Communication |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 13 2020 |
Keywords
- transparency
- psychoanalysis
- masculine fragility
- drive
- WikiLeaks
- Julian Assange