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Crypto anarchy, cyberstates, and pirate utopias / edited by Peter Ludlow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Digital communicationPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 485 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262256582
  • 0262256584
  • 0262122383
  • 9780262122382
  • 9780262621519
  • 0262621517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crypto anarchy, cyberstates, and pirate utopias.DDC classification:
  • 303.4834 22
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .C78 2001eb
Online resources:
Partial contents:
New foundations : on the emergence of sovereign cyberstates and their governance structures / Peter Ludlow -- A declaration of the independence of cyberspace / John Perry Barlow -- Getting our priorities straight / David Brin -- United nodes of Internet : are we forming a digital nation? / David S. Bennahum -- HyperMedia freedom / Richard Barbrook -- The crypto anarchist manifesto / Timothy C. May -- Crypto anarchy and virtual communities / Timothy C. May -- A cyberpunk's manifesto / Eric Hughes -- The future of cryptography / Dorothy E. Denning -- Afterword to "The future of cryptography" / Dorothy E. Denning -- Re: Denning's crypto anarchy / Duncan Frissell -- Hiding crimes in cyberspace / Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh Jr. -- Law and borders : the rise of law in cyberspace / David R. Johnson and David G. Post -- Anarchy, state, and the Internet : an essay lawmaking in cyberspace / David Post -- Prop 13 : meets the Internet : how state and local government finances are becoming road kill on the information superhgway / Nathan Newman -- Virtual(ly) law : the emergence of law in LambdaMOO / Jennifer L. Mnookin -- "Help manners" : cyberdemocracy and its vicissitudes / Charles J. Stivale -- Due process and cyberjurisdiction / David R. Johnson -- Virtual Magistrate Project press release -- Virtual Magistrate issues its first decision -- Utopia redux / Karrie Jacobs -- The god of the digerati / Jedidiah S. Purdy -- Californian ideology / Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron -- Bit riot / Mark Dery -- The temporary autonomous zone / Hakim Bey -- Appendix : Interview with Noam Chomsky on anarchism, Marxism, and hope for the future / Kevin Doyle.
Summary: In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world, new and superior governance structures may emerge. Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions. The book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy"--Essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace. Contributors Richard Barbrook, John Perry Barlow, William E. Baugh Jr., David S. Bennahum, Hakim Bey, David Brin, Andy Cameron, Dorothy E. Denning, Mark Dery, Kevin Doyle, Duncan Frissell, Eric Hughes, Karrie Jacobs, David Johnson, Peter Ludlow, Timothy C. May, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Nathan Newman, David G. Post, Jedediah S. Purdy, Charles J. Stivale.
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New foundations : on the emergence of sovereign cyberstates and their governance structures / Peter Ludlow -- A declaration of the independence of cyberspace / John Perry Barlow -- Getting our priorities straight / David Brin -- United nodes of Internet : are we forming a digital nation? / David S. Bennahum -- HyperMedia freedom / Richard Barbrook -- The crypto anarchist manifesto / Timothy C. May -- Crypto anarchy and virtual communities / Timothy C. May -- A cyberpunk's manifesto / Eric Hughes -- The future of cryptography / Dorothy E. Denning -- Afterword to "The future of cryptography" / Dorothy E. Denning -- Re: Denning's crypto anarchy / Duncan Frissell -- Hiding crimes in cyberspace / Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh Jr. -- Law and borders : the rise of law in cyberspace / David R. Johnson and David G. Post -- Anarchy, state, and the Internet : an essay lawmaking in cyberspace / David Post -- Prop 13 : meets the Internet : how state and local government finances are becoming road kill on the information superhgway / Nathan Newman -- Virtual(ly) law : the emergence of law in LambdaMOO / Jennifer L. Mnookin -- "Help manners" : cyberdemocracy and its vicissitudes / Charles J. Stivale -- Due process and cyberjurisdiction / David R. Johnson -- Virtual Magistrate Project press release -- Virtual Magistrate issues its first decision -- Utopia redux / Karrie Jacobs -- The god of the digerati / Jedidiah S. Purdy -- Californian ideology / Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron -- Bit riot / Mark Dery -- The temporary autonomous zone / Hakim Bey -- Appendix : Interview with Noam Chomsky on anarchism, Marxism, and hope for the future / Kevin Doyle.

Print version record.

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world, new and superior governance structures may emerge. Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions. The book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy"--Essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace. Contributors Richard Barbrook, John Perry Barlow, William E. Baugh Jr., David S. Bennahum, Hakim Bey, David Brin, Andy Cameron, Dorothy E. Denning, Mark Dery, Kevin Doyle, Duncan Frissell, Eric Hughes, Karrie Jacobs, David Johnson, Peter Ludlow, Timothy C. May, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Nathan Newman, David G. Post, Jedediah S. Purdy, Charles J. Stivale.

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