{"product_id":"cyberlibertarianism-the-right-wing-politics-of-digital-technology-paperback","title":"Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Golumbia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Justice\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn urgent reckoning with digital technology's fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, \u003ci\u003eCyberlibertarianism\u003c\/i\u003e argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. \u003cp\u003e Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, \u003ci\u003eCyberlibertarianism\u003c\/i\u003e details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. As he unpacks our naively utopian conception of the digital world, Golumbia highlights technology's role in the advancement of hyperindividualist and antigovernment agendas, demonstrating how Silicon Valley corporations and right-wing economists; antiestablishment figures such as Julian Assange, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Edward Snowden, and Mark Zuckerberg; and seemingly positive voices such as John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wikipedia all have worked to hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing from a wide range of thought in digital theory, economics, law, and political philosophy as well as detailed research and Golumbia's own experience as a software developer, \u003ci\u003eCyberlibertarianism\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a clarion call to reevaluate the fraught politics of the internet. In the hope of providing a way of working toward a more genuinely democratic and egalitarian future for digital technology, this magisterial work insists that we must first understand the veiled dogmas from which it has been constructed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e David Golumbia (1963-2023) was associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Logic of Computation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2016). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e George Justice is professor of English and provost at the University of Tulsa. He specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and the history of the book, and he writes frequently about higher education. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48100675223804,"sku":"9781517918149","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/1648\/7234\/files\/686knEhByX9781517918149.webp?v=1757386232","url":"https:\/\/proudlibertarian.com\/products\/cyberlibertarianism-the-right-wing-politics-of-digital-technology-paperback","provider":"Proud Libertarian","version":"1.0","type":"link"}