Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning And The Politics Of Outsider Truth-Telling – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190920036,0190920033, 9780190920050, 019092005X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 019092005X
• ISBN-13: 9780190920050
• Author: Lida Maxwell
  

The first book-length theoretical treatment of Manning’s actions, Insurgent Truth argues for seeing Manning’s example differently: as an act of what the book terms “outsider truth-telling.” Bringing Manning’s truth-telling into conversation with democratic, feminist, and queer theory, the book argues that outsider truth-tellers such as Manning tell or enact unsettling truths from a position of social illegibility. Challenging the social alignment of credibility with gendered, classed, and raced traits, outsider truth-tellers reveal oppression and violence that the dominant class would otherwise not see, and disclose the possibility of a more egalitarian form of life. Read as outsider truth-telling, the book argues that Manning’s acts were not aimed at curbing corporate or governmental bad acts, but instead at transforming public discourse and agency, and inciting a solidaristic public. The book suggests that Manning’s actions offer a productive example of democratic truth-telling for all of us. Lida Maxwell develops this argument through an examination of Manning’s prison writings, the lengthy chat logs between Manning and the hacker who eventually turned her in, various journalistic, artistic, and academic responses to Manning, and by comparing Manning’s example and writings with the work and actions of other outsider truth-tellers, including Cassandra, Virginia Woolf, Bayard Rustin, and Audre Lorde. Showing the shortcomings of existing approaches to truth and politics, Maxwell advances a new theoretical framework through which to understand truth-telling in politics: not only as a practice of offering a pre-political common ground of “facts” to politics, but also as the practice of unsettling public discourse by revealing the oppression and domination that it often masks.

Table contents:

1. Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Truth-Telling

2. Public, Private, Insurgent: What Is Outsider Truth-Telling?

3. Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller

4. Anonymity as Outsider Tactic: Woolf’s “Anon” and Rustin’s Quiet Persistence

5. Telling the Truth, Changing the World: Woolf’s War Photographs and Manning’s Collateral Murder Video

6. “I used to only know how to write memos”: The World-Building Power of Outsider Security

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