Public Secrets
By Sharon Daniel
Design by Erik Loyer
Author's Statement
"Truth is not a matter of exposure which destroys the secret, but a revelation that does justice to it."
Walter Benjamin - The Origin of German Tragic Drama
There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are "public secrets" - secrets that the public chooses to keep safe from itself, like the troubling "don't ask, don't tell." The trick to the public secret is in knowing what not to know. This is the most powerful form of social knowledge. Such shared secrets sustain social and political institutions. The injustices of the war on drugs, the criminal justice system, and the Prison Industrial Complex are "public secrets."
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