@article{Caponi_2014, title={“ALHS! ALHS! Why Are You So OSINT?” Reading Books During Office Hours}, url={https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/4042}, DOI={10.13130/2035-7680/4042}, abstractNote={<p>This is not a story for people who cannot digest acronyms. Indeed, it is as if the secret<br />services, generally considered, simply could not do without them. If, as many contend,<br />in the term “military intelligence” resonates the echo of an oxymoron, acronyms may<br />undoubtedly reach the practical goal of saving mental and phonetic energy, killing not<br />less than two birds with a single stone. Applied to secret services and intelligence,<br />acronyms fulfill a double function: they confer an indisputable aura of scientific dignity<br />to what they aim at referring to, and they conceal behind a succession of usually eerie<br />capital letters what they also intend to reveal.</p>}, number={11}, journal={Altre Modernità}, author={Caponi, Paolo}, year={2014}, month={mag.}, pages={37–53} }