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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - Public Noises
Taking Anarchy Seriously
The Ideological Origins of the Techno-Cultural Revolution
From Public Noises to Public Nuisances
Don’t Follow Leaders, Watch the Parking Meters
Anarchy, State, Utopia
CHAPTER 2 - The Ideology of Peer-to-Peer
The Nature of Distributed Systems
The Ideology of P2P
Anarchy of Access Versus the Stability of Ownership
CHAPTER 3 - Hacking the Currency
The Limits of Cynicism
Misunderstanding Cyberspace
Using “Our Technology” Against “Us”
Protocols Versus Controls
Hacking The Matrix
CHAPTER 4 - The Peer-to-Peer Revolution and the Future of Music
A Sports Story and a Crime Story
Anarchy in the PC
A Dying Industry?
The Perfect Jukebox
Music for the People or by the People?
The Battle Moves from the Courts to the Computers
A Rational Revolt?
Enter the Ethicist
CHAPTER 5 - A Work in Progress or the Final Edit?
Immediate Gratification
Hollywood Versus Hackers
The Folly of Digital Television
Just Another Appliance
The Final Edit
CHAPTER 6 - Imagineering
Everything Can’t Be a Parody
Rigging the System
From Software to Hardware
Intellectual Property Is Neither
The Copyright “Crisis”
Copyright as an Instrument of Censorship
CHAPTER 7 - Culture as Anarchy
Muting the Beat
Global Culture by the Download
How Do We Regulate Culture?
CHAPTER 8 - The Perfect Library
Libraries Under Suspicion
The Perfect Library
The Real Library
The Information Elite
The Power Anxious
Out of Balance
CHAPTER 9 - The Anarchy and Oligarchy of Science and Math
Commerce and Control
Pardon Me, May I Use My Genes?
The Genome Game
Science and Security
Regulating Math
Between Heston and Heidegger
CHAPTER 10 - The Nation-State Versus Networks
Soft Oligarchy: The Washington Consensus
Techno-Libertarianism : The California Ideology
Caffeinated Anarchy
CHAPTER 11 - The Empire Strikes Back
From Civil Society to Civil Disobedience
Networks of Terror
What’s a State to Do?
The Locust Man
Falun Gong.net
Hacktivism
Failed States
CHAPTER 12 - Conclusion
Deadly Synergy
For Cultural Democracy
For Civic Republicanism
Acknowledgements
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Copyright Page
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