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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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaidhyanathan, Siva
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2004]
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Political aspect.
Information society.
Table of Contents:
  • Public noises
  • The ideology of peer-to-peer
  • Hacking the currency : cybercynicism and cyberanarchy
  • The peer-to-peer revolution and the future of music
  • A work in progress or the final edit?
  • Imagineering : to control the culture is to control the future
  • Culture as anarchy
  • The perfect library
  • The anarchy and oligarchy of science and math
  • The nation state vs. networks
  • The empire strikes back
  • Conclusion : the heartbreak of oligarchy and anarchy.