Multiple-use name
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A multiple-use name is a name used by many different people to protect anonymity.[1] It is a strategy that has been adopted by many unconnected radical and cultural groups, where the construct of personal identity has been criticised. [citation needed]
Examples of multiple user names include:
- Janez Janša
- Captain Swing
- Karen Eliot
- Nicolas Bourbaki
- Luther Blissett
- Ned Ludd [1]
- Wally
- Monty Cantsin
- Rrose Sélavy
- Poor Konrad
- Taliesin
- Monsieur Dupont
- Jack Straw (rebel leader)
- Bob Dobbs, or J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (Cult Leader) Founder of the Church of the SubGenius
- Georg Paul Thomann
- Alan Smithee
- Bing Killsmith
- Netochka Nezvanova
- Spartacus
- Anna Adamolo
- Geoffrey Cohen
- Karen Karnak
- Anonymous
- Robert Paulson
- David Davidson
- Waldo
- Amanda B. Reckonwith
- George P. Burdell
- Aydem Azmikara an anonymous distributed identity
- Washington Irving
References
- ^ a b Home, Stewart (1997). Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism. Indiana University: Serpent's Tail. p. 119. ISBN 1852425601.