The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. To find out more about the novel Wilderness of Mirrors , you can connect via Insecure E-Mail or by secure means. It is important to understand that no communication method is guaranteed to be completely secure. When used tactically in a face-off between opposing factions, the mirror becomes an effective agent of protest, as was recently the case in Kiev. At a demonstration in Independence Square , officially named Maidan Nezalezhnosti but locally known simply as the Maidan, security police found themselves con- fronted by their own reflections in mirrors held up by women using them as would-be shields to empower themselves and at the same time to figuratively disarm riot forces in one potent gesture.
Because mirrors were complex relations t o produce the volatile and often conflict- deployed in such an unexpected way as peaceful weapons , ing spaces that we inhabit. Frequently overlooked in this the demonstration drew even more attention to the cause constellation are the roles that territory itself plays as an from national and international media alike. Yet with all eyes actor in the body politic. Rather than being merely a benign on the Ukraine, nobody at the time could anticipate the chain container of activities or passive entity on which indiscrimi- of events that would ripple out from this square to the rest of nate forces act, territory can be considered a 'thing' in the the world, thus entangling a small country in a geopolitical Latourian sense, an agent that brings together an "assembly tug-of-war reminiscent of the Cold War era.
Notwith- ground behind the action of human affairs, territory binds standing the particulars of the situation, the 'mirror protest' disparate sets of desires , beliefs, behaviors , interests, indig- 76 arch ithese 6. The larger issue in the up- 1 Viewofthe Maidan in Kiev, matter for all concerned. A torn land set the stage for a and police, with a tent city in the a multivalent role as both arena and actor. The protests did standoff between the free market, with its neoliberal ideol- background, not take place just anywhere, but instead in the center of the ogy, and a centrally controlled economy harboring its own February 19, photo: capital, on a public site granted historical importance as a neoliberal aspirations.
But which way should one go when Olga Yakimovich , symbol of political activity in the country. Overnight, a tent faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils? Their giving the West grounds to celebrate the flowering of democ- repeated clashes with military troops left the square a smold- racy in yet another Eastern Bloc country - and talks with ering battleground. As in so many other a wild topos of diverse actors, each playing t heir formative such conflicts, territorial claims - civic, national, regional, role in events both large and small - whether a mirror held and global - and the moves made on their behalf shape the up, a public square reformatted, a jailed dissident freed, a world as we know it.
Here, the mirror is as by world powers. This would bring us to Michel Foucault's much an agent of change as are any of the people involved - more expansive understanding of events themselves as a an arbiter in its own right, bringing opponents face to face field of "connections, encounters, supports, blockages, plays while mediating opposing interests. But the mirror is only of forces, strategies and so on" - all refracting each other as one of many such 'inanimate' agents in this example - along if scattered in some hall of mirrors.
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Image via National Security Agency. Central characters in the novel Wilderness of Mirrors work for the CIA under cover as clergy or journalists. Some readers have made inquiries about whether or not the CIA ever actually sent officers into foreign countries disguised in this manner. In fact, as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities — in — demonstrated that the CIA regularly used both journalists and members of religious orders to gather information and to control and deliver secret government activities, including the overthrow of governments.
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