The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Author:Siva Vaidhyanathan [Vaidhyanathan, Siva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Web, Technology & Engineering, American Government, Civil Rights, Computers, library, General, Political Science, Information Technology
ISBN: 9780465089857
Google: K8HijwEACAAJ
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2005-03-15T00:00:00+00:00


The emerging information pay-per-view regime could signal the death of the liberal Enlightenment project and thus the public library itself. Thinkers as politically diverse as Theodore Adorno, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Dinesh D’Souza, and Neil Postman have predicted the death of the Enlightenment, blaming a variety of causes, including the Enlightenment’s internal contradictions, the empty cleverness of postmodernism, and the social tremors caused by ethnic politics. The real culprit, however, is the steady commercialization of the cultural and communicative process.



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