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The anarchist in the library - How the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
2004
N 631 VAI.T
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Title
The anarchist in the library - How the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Edition
First edition.
Description
viii; 253p ; [28] cm
ISBN
0465089844
9780465089840
9780786722266 electronic book
0786722266 electronic book
0465089852 paperback
9780465089857 paperback
9780465089840
9780786722266 electronic book
0786722266 electronic book
0465089852 paperback
9780465089857 paperback
Alternate Call Number
N 631 VAI.T
Summary
"The recording industry has sued the music downloaders into submission, but as a model of communication, their effects still echo around the world. The proliferation of such peer-to-peer networks may appear to threaten many established institutions, and the backlash against them could be even worse than the problems they create. Their effects - good and bad - resonate far beyond markets for music. They are altering our sense of the possible, extending our cultural and political imaginations." "Unregulated networks of communication have existed as long as gossip has. But with the rise of electronic communication, they are exponentially more important. And they are drawing the contours of a struggle over information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, from unauthorized fan edits of Star Wars to terrorist organizations' reliance on "leaderless resistance." The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic developments of our time."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Public noises
The ideology of peer-to-peer
Hacking the currency
The peer-to-peer revolution and the future of music
A work in progress or the final edit?
Imagineering
Culture as anarchy
The perfect library
The anarchy and oligarchy of science and math
The nation state versus networks
The empire strikes back
Conclusion : the heartbreak of oligarchy and anarchy.
The ideology of peer-to-peer
Hacking the currency
The peer-to-peer revolution and the future of music
A work in progress or the final edit?
Imagineering
Culture as anarchy
The perfect library
The anarchy and oligarchy of science and math
The nation state versus networks
The empire strikes back
Conclusion : the heartbreak of oligarchy and anarchy.
Series
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2004.
Language
English
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all
Review
"The recording industry has sued the music downloaders into submission, but as a model of communication, their effects still echo around the world. The proliferation of such peer-to-peer networks may appear to threaten many established institutions, and the backlash against them could be even worse than the problems they create. Their effects - good and bad - resonate far beyond markets for music. They are altering our sense of the possible, extending our cultural and political imaginations." "Unregulated networks of communication have existed as long as gossip has. But with the rise of electronic communication, they are exponentially more important. And they are drawing the contours of a struggle over information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, from unauthorized fan edits of Star Wars to terrorist organizations' reliance on "leaderless resistance." The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic developments of our time."--Jacket.