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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (Paperback)
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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (Paperback)
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A wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political
structures in cyberspace. 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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