[FYI] (Fwd) Book announcement--Ludlow

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Forwarding... Please direct any inquiries about the book to
wolfskil@mit.edu.

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From: Jud Wolfskill [mailto:wolfskil@MIT.EDU]
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Subject: book announcement--Ludlow

I thought readers of the Cyberia List might be interested in this
book.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=B37FD3FE-0FA5-461
E- 8119-D94C1B50363B&ttype=2&tid=4196

Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
edited by Peter Ludlow

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow
extends the approach he used 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. Peter Ludlow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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.

6 x 9, 451 pp., 4 illus.
paper ISBN 0-262-62151-7
cloth ISBN 0-262-12238-3
Digital Communication series

Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA  02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
wolfskil@mit.edu


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