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Re: "The Perfect Library"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Mon Jan 3 21:56:17 2005
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:16:37 -0600
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Colleagues/
_The Anarchist in the Library_ was published by Basic Books;
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Public Noises
2. The Ideology of Peer-to-Peer
3. Hacking the Currency: Cybercynicism and Cyberanarchy
4. The Peer-to-Peer Revolution and the Future of Music
5. A Work in Progress or the Final Edit?
6. Imagineering: To Control the Culture is to Control the Future
7. Culture as Anarchy
8. The Perfect Library
9. The Anarchy and Oligarchy of Science and Math
10. The Nation State vs. Networks
11. The Empire Strikes Back
12. Conclusion: The Heartbreak of Oligarchy and Anarchy
Notes
Bibliography
[ http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026089.html ]
The Amazon page is at
[ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465089844/ ]
This is definitely on my 2005 MustRead list!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
c: Michael
gerrymck@iastate.edu
>>> hart@PGLAF.ORG 12/30/2004 12:19:14 PM >>>
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Found in The Hindu, Madras's leading newspaper:
In a brilliant, scintillating new book called The Anarchist in the
Library by Siva Vaidyanathan (a rising young academic star who teaches
at New York University) which looks at "how the clash between freedom
and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system", you
learn that the library is the biggest threat to commercial information
systems and content industries because libraries are leaks in the
information economy. "The perfect library", writes Vaidyanathan,
"would offer you access to any text, song, film, image, or video game.
It would be easy, convenient and free. The perfect library would be
built and stocked by volunteers who donated their time, labour,
creativity and passion."
