![]() Lorenzo Secondari, World War I veteran, engineering genius, and leader of Croatian raiders. The ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are led by a brilliant and passionate coterie of the perhaps insane. Mortal enemies of communists, capitalists, and even fascists (to whom they are not entirely unsympathetic). Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate-warriors of the tiny Regency of Carnaro, unlikely scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Denning, Mark Dery, Kevin Doyle, Duncan Frissell, Eric Hughes, Karrie Jacobs, David Johnson, Peter Ludlow, Timothy C. Bennahum, Hakim Bey, David Brin, Andy Cameron, Dorothy E. Contributors Richard Barbrook, John Perry Barlow, William E. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy"-essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation states and other traditional powers. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world, new and superior governance structures may emerge. ![]() Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. Corsairs, Sufis, pederasts, "irresistible" Moorish women, slaves, adventures, Irish rebels, heretical Jews, British spies, a Moorish pirate in old New York, and radical working-class heroes all populate a book which intends to entertain and to make a point about insurrectionary communities.Ĭrypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate UtopiasĪ wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace. ![]() Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors - Renegadoes? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance?Peter Lamborn Wilson focuses on the corsairs' most impressive accomplishment, the independent Pirate Republic of Salé, in Morocco, in the 17th century. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Wilson really does turn the world upside down!'Christopher Hill, author, The World Turned Upside DownFrom the 16th to the 19th centuries, Muslim corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. His careful analysis of (the) renegadoes, their ideas, and political practice leads to a very tentative suggestion that some of them may have links with Rosicrucianism and the 18th-century Enlightenment.Historians will have to think about this book's novel theme and pursue its implications. ![]() It deals with 17th century European converts to Islam - usually but not always as pirates - whose numbers Wilson puts at thousands. His scholarship cuts through the seas of ignorance and prejudice with grace and power.'Peter Linebaugh, author, The London Hanged'One of those rare books which give historians new ideas to think about. Interesting and compelling.a rollicking, adventurous book.'Marcus Rediker, author, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'A chronicler, a historiographer, and a piratologist in the tradition of Defoe.with immense learning and interesting sympathies. 'Peter Lamborn Wilson shows why we cherish pirates - and why, for the sake of the future, we must continue to do so. ![]()
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