My glorious defeats : hacktivist, narcissist, anonymous: a memoir / Barrett Brown.
"Journalist and hacktivist Barrett Brown recounts his own story and lays out a vision for a media landscape under siege"-- Provided by publisher.
"Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's America. This is his story. After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style, palpable anger and conviction, he exposes the incompetence and injustices that plague media and politics, reflects on the successes and failures of the transparency movement, and shows the way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for collective action. But My Glorious Defeats is more than just the tale of the clever and hilarious Brown; it's also a rigorously researched dissection of our decaying institutions and of human nature itself. As Brown makes clear, institutions are made of people-people with personal ambitions and personal vices-and it is people, just like him, just like us, who hold power. As optimistic as it is heartbreaking, My Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for insurgency in the information age.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374217013
- ISBN: 0374217017
- Physical Description: 398 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Hubris -- Microverse -- The accidental insurrection -- The robespierre complex -- Tripping over invisible weapons -- The age of ambiguity -- Nemesis -- Another hidden country -- Narcissus v. Leviathan -- Conclave -- A working vacation -- Synthesis -- Synthesis -- Conspiracies of convenience --A republic, if you can fake it -- The things that should have been.
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