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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Dexter, S. Chopra, S. |
| Abstract | Our freedoms in cyberspace are those granted by code and the protocols it implements. When man and machine interact, co-exist, and intermingle, cyberspace comes to interpenetrate the real world fully. In this cyborg world, software retains its regulatory role, becoming a language of interaction with our extended cyborg selves. The mediation of our extended selves by closed software threatens individual autonomy. We define a notion of freedom for software that does justice to our conception of it as language, sketching the outlines of a social and political philosophy for a cyborg world. In a cyberspace underwritten by free software, political structures become contingent and flexible: the polity can choose to change the extent and character of its participation. The rejection of opaque power is an old anarchist ideal: free software, by making power transparent, carries the potential to place substantive restrictions on the regulatory power of cyborg government. |
| Starting Page | 41 |
| Ending Page | 52 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 00952737 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1327325.1327328 |
| Journal | ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society (CSOC) |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2013-05-01 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Cyborg Cyberspace Political philosophy Autonomy E-government Free software |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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