Expanded Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Politics of Visibility (click here for sample pages)
The Virtual Body of the Condemned
Space, Technology, and the Body
1. Theorizing Spaces (click here for sample page)
Practicing Space
Other Spaces
Virtual Spaces
2. Democratic Utopias
Scaling Democracy
The Human Condition
The Public Sphere
The Spatial Lament
3. Hardware and Software: A Techno-Topography of Cyberspace
Electronic Computing: The Development of Bit Space
Internet: The Growth of Network Space
From Technocratic Mainframes to Democratic PCs: Wiring Cyberspace
Gibsonian Cyberspace: Back to the Future?
4. Wetware: An Ethno-Topography of Cyberspace
From Guard Towers to Tower Systems: Tracking the Data-Image
Byte Me!: Hackers and Other Strangers
Towards "Virtual Communities" . . . and Their Discontents
If You Have No "Body," Can You Take a Stand?
5. Hacking Cyberspace
Crypto Politics
The Strange Case of a Code Exporter
A Space of Politics: Staging the Debate
Decoding the Crypto-War: 1991-96
A Shared Terrain: Renegotiations of the Public/Private Split
Border Patrols on the Information Superhighway
Code Warriors on the Electronic Frontier
Hyperdemocratic Success?
The Politics of Space: A Tale of Two Similes
The Information Superhighway
The Electronic Frontier
Hyper-Liberal Convergence
Hacking Society
Conclusion: Cybertopia and the Demos
The Spatial Turn
Technical Specifications
Embodied Power: The Return of the Repressed
Notes
Works Cited
Index (click here for full index)
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