WikiLeaks on the Middle East: Obscure Diplomacy Networks and Binding Spaces

Bicakci, Salih; Rende, Deniz; Rende, Sevinc; Yıldız, Olcay Taner

doi:10.1080/19448953.2014.940763

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“…These leaks were widely billed as enabling a clear and sometimes unprecedented view into the workings of dimly lit corridors of power. The documents released provided not only the building blocks for popular media accounts at the time about how warfighting gets done but also subsequent academic scholarship setting out the nature of US information-gathering networks (e.g., Bicakci et al 2014;Frampton and Rosen 2013) and the inability of the US executive branch to maintain the kinds of tight information controls it sought (e.g., Fenster 2014).…”

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Leaky Revelations

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Current Anthropology

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Contests over the control of information are central to the perpetuation and critique of militarism. This article examines one of the most prominent sets of state document leaks in recent political history: the online posting of hundreds of thousands of US war logs and diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks. Bold statements were advanced in 2010 and afterward regarding what these releases made visible. In contrast, this article considers how disclosure and nondisclosure came bundled together. With reference to the tensions of keeping secrets and producing transparency, I suggest that the promise attached to the released documents did not just derive from the argument that they revealed modern statecraft, nor that such knowledge was tantalizingly out of reach, but from the manner in which what had been rendered knowable could be revisited over time. Through this argument I want to explore the affective knots, conceptual tangles, and problematic story lines associated with exposing militarism.

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