Learning how Anonymous works means learning to be one. Gabriella Coleman narrates her experience of being in between worlds.

Defense lawyer Tor Ekeland gives us an up-close, first-person view of a widespread pathology: how misplaced fear and hysteria is driving an over-reaction to the positive work that hackers can do.

Amira Pettus diagrams how Occupy recreates the structures and organization of collectives.

Security is no longer a privilege of the few, or a commodity in the hands of those few who can afford it. Claudio (“nex”) Guarnieri explains why civil society isn’t going to secure itself, and why it needs help from hackers.

Andreas Folkers recalls how nuclear energy created a powerful counter-public in Germany beginning in the 1970s, and assesses the contemporary politics of energy alternatives.