Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

by Ludlow, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780262621519
• ISBN10: 0262621517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-25
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Peter Ludlow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
About the Contributors	xxi
New Foundations: On the Emergence of Sovereign Cyberstates and Their Governance Structures	1	(24)
Peter Ludlow
I The Sovereignty of Cyberspace?	25	(34)
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace	27	(4)
John Perry Barlow
Getting Our Priorities Straight	31	(8)
David Brin
United Nodes of Internet: Are We Forming a Digital Nation?	39	(8)
David S. Bennahum
Hyper Media Freedom	47	(12)
Richard Barbrook
II Crypto Anarchy	59	(84)
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto	61	(4)
Timothy C. May
Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities	65	(16)
Timothy C. May
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto	81	(4)
Eric Hughes
The Future of Cryptography	85	(18)
Dorothy E. Denning
Afterword to ``The Future of Cryptography''	103	(2)
Dorothy E. Denning
Re: Denning's Crypto Anarchy	105	(10)
Duncan Frissell
Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace	115	(28)
Dorothy E. Denning
William E. Baugh
III Shifting Borders: How VR Is Claiming Jurisdiction from RL	143	(100)
Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace	145	(52)
David R. Johnson
David G. Post
Anarchy, State, and the Internet: An Essay on Lawmaking in Cyberspace	197	(16)
David G. Post
Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How State and Local Government Finances Are Becoming Road Kill on the Information Superhighway	213	(30)
Nathan Newman
IV The Emergence of Law and Governance Structures in Cyberspace	243	(104)
Virtual (ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in Lambda MOO	245	(58)
Jennifer L. Mnookin
``help manners'': Cyberdemocracy and Its Vicissitudes	303	(26)
Charles J. Stivale
Due Process and Cyberjurisdiction	329	(10)
David R. Johnson
Virtual Magistrate Project Press Release	339	(4)
Virtual Magistrate Issues Its First Decision	343	(4)
V Utopia, Dystopia, and Pirate Utopias	347	(88)
Utopia Redux	349	(4)
Karrie Jacobs
The God of the Digerati	353	(10)
Jedediah S. Purdy
Californian Ideology	363	(26)
Richard Barbrook
Andy Cameron
Bit Rot	389	(12)
Mark Dery
The Temporary Autonomous Zone	401	(34)
Hakim Bey
Appendix: Interview with Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism, and Hope for the Future	435	(16)
Kevin Doyle
Name Index	451	(8)
Index of Corporations, Organizations, Agencies, and Other Groups	459	(4)
Subject Index	463