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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 (Hardcover)

by Siva Vaidhyanathan (Author) "Parisians living in the turbulent eighteenth century found out about their world and their politics by sharing "public noises" (bruits publics) in a handful of..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; export ed edition (14 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0465089844
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465089840
  • Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 16.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A radically new take on the coming battle over information, from a fast-rising academic star. From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cyberspace to resemble the real world? Siva Vaidhyanathan enters this debate with a seminal insight: While we've been busy debating how to make cyberspace imitate the world, the world has been busy imitating cyberspace. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web. Vaidhyanathan tells us the key information structure of our time, and the key import from cyberspace into the world, is the "peer-to-peer network. " Peer-to-peer networks have always existed--but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, affecting everything from society to terrorism, from religion to the latest social fads. The Anarchist in the Library is a radically original look at how this battle defines one of the major fault lines of twenty-first-century civilization.


About the Author

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural histo rian and media scholar, is Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. His research has been profiled on National Public Radio, CNN, International Herald-Tribune Televisio n, and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. He live s in New York City.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting essays don't add up to a compelling book, 4 Jun 2004
Ignore the subtitle - this is a thoughtful and well-researched book. It begins with a potted history of anarchism and tries to place current debates about intellectual property within the context of the historical struggle between freedom and control, or anarchy and oligarchy. Peer-to-peer networks are labelled anarchic while the music and movie industries are oligarchic. However, after a promising start the book loses direction, bringing globalization, terrorism and genomics into the picture without much to tie them together other than the fact that they all involve information and control. At times the book seems like a collection of unrelated essays which have been sprinkled with the words "anarchy", "oligarchy" and "peer-to-peer". Nevertheless it's worth reading if you are interested in the politics of information, and the bibliography is excellent.
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