Cyber Disobedience
Re://Presenting Online Anarchy
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2014
172 pages
978-1-78279-555-1 (ISBN)
Description
Few activities have captured the contemporary popular imagination as hacking and online activism, from Anonymous and beyond. Few political ideas have gained more notoriety recently than anarchism. Yet both remain misunderstood and much maligned. /Cyber Disobedience/ provides the most engaging and detailed analysis of online civil disobedience and anarchism today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
1,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78279-555-1 (9781782795551)
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Jeff Shantz | Jordon Tomblin
Cyber Disobedience - Re://Presenting Online Anarchy
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Persons
Jeff Shantz has been a community organizer, rank-and-file workplace activist and anarchist for decades. He currently teaches social justice, community advocacy and critical theory at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver. Jordon Tomblin is a graduate student at Carleton University in the department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) where he is specializing in Digital Humanities.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Webs of Struggle: Introducing Anarchy and Cyber Disobedience
- Cyber Disobedience: Hacktivism and Beyond
- Organizing Anarchy
- Of Plastic Guns, Lulz, and Liberty: Two Struggles over the Communication Commons
- And Two on Surveillance
- Against the Law
- Uncivil Disobedience?: Beyond Politics as Usual
- Chapter 1. Re://Presenting Anarchy: Constructing Fear
- Fin de Siècle Fears: Constructing the Anarchist Menace at the turn of the Twentieth Century
- Writing Anarchism All Wrong: Literary Re://Presentations of Anarchy
- Fin de Siècle Fears, Again: The Unabomber and the Dawn of the Internet Age
- A Note on "Terrorism"
- A Creative Passion
- Chapter 2. Finding the Middle Ground in Cyberspace: A Content Analysis of Hackers in Film
- Method
- Hacker Portrayals
- Revolutionary & Political - Shaping the World
- Advanced Understanding of Computers
- Terrorist-Anarchist Enemy of the State
- Malicious, Harmful Intentions and Fearless of Punishment
- Fun and Entertainment Seeking
- Curiosity
- Lack of Malicious Intentions
- Financially Motivated
- Vengeful
- Chapter 3. Sailing the Cyber Sea: Hacktivism and a Capitalist Response to Piracy
- Chapter 4. Applying For Netizenship: Foucault, Cybercrime and the Digital Age
- Chapter 5. Walking the Plank: Inciting Change through Whistleblowing
- Legislative Nodes: Sometimes Conducive, Sometimes Disparaging
- Opaque Webs: Exposing Health and its Consequences
- Transparency and Heresy: Inciting Change through Struggle
- Whistleblower Inception and Legal Deception
- Piracy and Privy: A Tentative Dispute
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Against the Online Enclosures: For a Cyber Commonism
- On the Commons: Common Resources, Common Struggles
- DIY Production: Challenging Capital
- Future Possibilities/Potenza?: Complexity, Networks, and Change
- Control Matters
- Against Authoritarianism
- Rethinking Democracy
- Immediatism: Theorizing Resistance to Enclosure and the "One World" of Capitalism
- Conclusion?
- Chapter 7. Beyond Hacktivism: Toward Cyber Syndicalism?
- Floating Signifiers: Into the Ether
- Counterpower
- Return to the Roots: On Cyber Syndicalism and Workers' Control
- Endnotes
- References
