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What are the contours of the contemporary public secret sphere? Some key manifestations can be found in the hybrids of network and sovereign power shaped by communications warfare. This article examines recent entanglements of social media and political dissent, specifically those sovereign networks designed to foment and prevent youth-oriented social movements. Using a number of recent examples (including the U.S. State Department organized Alliance of Youth Movements, the 2011 uprisings in Egypt, Kony 2012, U.S. police research conferences, and Anonymous), it argues that we are witnessing a convergence of sovereign and network powers, one that expresses new modes of control while setting the conditions for new forms of evaluation and antagonism. Finally, the article asks, how do we distinguish among these hybrids, between public secrecy and popular secrecy, among entangled secret networks?

This article examines recent developments in U.S. network politics. Focusing on the rise of the Tea Party as well as the standoffs in Madison, WI, it analyzes the emergent forms of populism via network forms. In addition, this conjuncture produces new mutations in the relationship between networks and sovereignty. Finally, the affective charge of these future networked movements, from fear to hope to love, need investigation.

This article examines the news events of summer 2005, focusing on the Valerie Plame leak investigation, the revealing of the identity of Watergate's Deep Throat, and various stories pertaining to the Terror/War. In analyzing the ways evidence is deployed rhetorically, it begins to question an oppositional strategy that relies on publicity and exposure. The article instead calls for a refocus on the "secret sphere" of politics (especially within journalism), which is not the same as eliminating secrecy in the name of the public sphere. Finally, cultural studies' strategic capacities are assessed with regard to evidence, secrecy, and revelation.

This essay, written within a week of the November 2004 U.S. election, was intended as a fog cutter in the miasma of postelection gloom. Finding more than silver linings, it assesses our crucible moment, in the historical and the alchemist sense. We are witnessing a variety of extraparliamentary experiments on the political landscape. What can cultural researchers do in these times? What are our experiments, our own transformations, in this crucible?

It is crucial to understand the changing conditions of truth telling in the new normal of the Terror War. This article examines recent developments in the generalization of state secrecy as well as the materialization of information warfare. These recent changes in the production of truth also offer possibilities for rethinking our own strategic attachments to truth. What the current conjuncture tells us is that the constellation of truth, secrecy, and revelation needs rearranging.

This article examines current events through the lens of secrecy. From public relations management of political images to new leadership figures in the electoral process, the importance of visibility in the New Normal is discussed. Culture as strategy is posited as a way of thinking through the current crisis.