Coding Freedom : : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking /

Coding Freedom : : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking / / E. Gabriella Coleman.

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Coleman, E. Gabriella,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. A Tale of Two Worlds
  • PART I. HISTORIES
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. The Life of a Free Software Hacker
  • CHAPTER 2. A Tale of Two Legal Regimes
  • PART II. CODES OF VALUE
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 3. The Craft and Craftiness of Hacking
  • CHAPTER 4. Two Ethical Moments in Debian
  • PART III. THE POLITICS OF AVOWAL AND DISAVOWAL
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 5. Code Is Speech
  • CONCLUSION. The Cultural Critique of Intellectual Property Law
  • EPILOGUE. How to Proliferate Distinctions, Not Destroy Them
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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