Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

ed. by Peter Ludlow

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Editor(s)

Peter Ludlow

Publication

Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 2001

Scope

485 Pages, 23 cm.

ISBN

0262621517

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Peter 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.

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Person as subject

Richard Barbrook, Hakim Bey, Kevin Doyle, ...[et al.]

Keywords

sociology , counter culture , new media , utopia

Location

Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet

Remarks

Incl. Index of Corporations, Organizations, Agencies and Other Groups.