Music and Cyberliberties by Patrick Burkart

Author:Patrick Burkart
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Projects and Prospects

Jefferson laid the foundations for a typically American tradition of radical criticism of the megalopolis, based on nostalgia for humanity’s original relationship with the land—the virgin wilderness that characterized the heroic age of the pioneers. The tradition was carried on by Ralph Waldo Emerson . . ., in the form of a conception of democracy that exalted the ideal of individuals free from all constraints and able to do as they pleased. In 1865, Emerson described his disciples as “fanatics in freedom” who “cannot tolerate any form of mediation.” At the dawn of the third millennium, the technolibertarians of cyberspace, those fierce adversaries of the very idea of the nation-state, would draw on this tradition to justify their planetary project of “virtual communities.”

—Armard Mattelart

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