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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Anarchist in the library. New York : Basic Books, c2004 (OCoLC)607052971 Online version: Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Anarchist in the library. New York : Basic Books, c2004 (OCoLC)631278428 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Siva Vaidhyanathan |
| ISBN: | 0465089844 9780465089840 |
| OCLC Number: | 53901452 |
| Description: | xvii, 253 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Siva Vaidhyanathan. |
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Abstract:
"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.
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