Against technocratic authoritarianism. A short intellectual history of the cypherpunk movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13118935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enrico Beltramini (0000-0001-9704-3960, Notre Dame de Namur University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-118 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Internet Histories (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2470-1475 • E-ISSN: 2470-1483 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24701475.2020.1731249 |
| OpenAlex | W3009184152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay aims to correct the established idea that the cypherpunk movement was organically embracing libertarianism. By addressing the cypherpunk movement, the intellectual roots of many of the concerns about freedom and about a surveillance society that dominate this internet age come to light. The cypherpunks, a heterogenic group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, argued in the nineties that the Internet would make more pervasive the phenomenon of surveillance of individuals. In the context of this increasing process of surveillance, individual autonomy would be dismissed as an obsolete fiction and social engineering would be elevated to totalitarianism. This article frames the cypherpunks as a movement in opposition to an emerging technocratic authoritarian order
Authoritarianism · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Epistemology · Media studies · New social movements · Opposition (politics · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Technocracy · The Internet · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · History of Computing Technologies · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law
Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption
« Il faut défendre la société de contrôle »
Cyber-libertarianism or marketing strategy? An investigation of Telegram’s domain-specific agency
The Bitcoin protocol as a system of power
Specifying a principle of cryptographic justice as a response to the problem of going dark
Cypherpunk ideology
The technological invasion in the cyber/punk graphic narratives of Blame! , We3 , and The Private Eye
Legal consciousness and the crypto phenomenon
Survival of the cryptic
Cryptoeconomics as governance
DAO as Rhizome
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |