Disclosure by Design: What Leaks Produce

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9584722

Mihir Pandya

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Abstract

This essay revisits the saga of Cold War era stealth development programs—classified but curiously public efforts to build airplanes that eluded radar detection—to explore how leaks work and the work leaks do when designing complex technical systems. Stealth programs are aging examples of an increasingly visible phenomenon: disclosures about large, closely guarded design, manufacturing, and administrative efforts before their official unveiling. Rather than simply policing the boundary between the secret and the public, in “big” design, in collective efforts to produce knowledge and things at scale, the article argues that leaks have a more subtle purpose: they help govern the uncertain terrain between knowing and knowing enough.

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设计披露:泄露产生了什么

这篇文章回顾了冷战时期隐形开发项目的传奇故事，即建造躲避雷达探测的飞机的机密但奇怪的公开努力，以探索泄漏是如何工作的，以及在设计复杂的技术系统时泄漏所做的工作。隐形计划是一种越来越明显的现象的老例子：在正式公布之前，披露大型、严密保护的设计、制造和行政工作。这篇文章认为，在“大”设计中，在大规模生产知识和事物的集体努力中，泄密有一个更微妙的目的：它们有助于控制知情和知情之间的不确定性。

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Public Culture Multiple-

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2.10

自引率

6.70%

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