Free software and the political philosophy of the cyborg world-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Free software and the political philosophy of the cyborg world

Published:2007-11 Issue:2 Volume:37 Page:41-52
ISSN:0095-2737
Container-title:ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGCAS Comput. Soc.

Author:

Chopra S.¹,Dexter S.¹

Affiliation:

1. Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

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.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1327325.1327328

Reference17 articles.

1. Bessette Joseph. 1994. The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bessette Joseph. 1994. The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2. Borgmann Albert and N. Katharine Hayles. 1999. An Interview/Dialog on Humans and Machines. University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html. Borgmann Albert and N. Katharine Hayles. 1999. An Interview/Dialog on Humans and Machines. University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html.

3. Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors;Boyle James;University of Cincinnati Law Review,1997

4. Cyborgs and Space;Clynes Manfred E;Astronautice,1960

Cited by 4 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Piracy and the Impaired Cyborg;Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction;2021-01-05

2. Assistive technologies and autonomy in a cyborg world;Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development;2015-05-15

3. Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled;Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology;2014-05-28

4. Free and Open Source Software versus Internet content filtering and censorship: A case study;Journal of Systems and Software;2012-04