anarchist, revolutionary philosophies of, 49, 59, 61 Cyber as an idea, not a group, 71–74 as loose hacktivist 'group,' 41–42, 61 Disobedience as movement against enclosures, 104 formed "for the lulz," 54 Re://Presenting Online Anarchy relationship to Wikileaks, 100–101 anti-civilization, 113–114 Coming November 28, 2014. anti-technology, 113–114 ISBN 978-1-78279-556-8 Arab Spring, 4, 5, 6, 14, 122 http://www.zero-books.net/books/cyber- art, 38 , 59, 123 disobedience assassinations, 24, 25, 32 Assange, Julian, 91, 94, 100, 101 authoritarianism, 114–15 Index control over minds and bodies, 10 autonomy, 110 3D printing, 10–15 B 9/11, 36, 37, 128 Badiou, Alain, 35, 36, 37, 117 Bakunin, Mikhail, 37 A Barbrook, Richard , 1 A-Infos (anarchist news service), 133 Beck, Ulrich, 34, 78, 94 academia, 38, 81 Benjamin, Walter, 120 activism Bey, Hakim, 117–24 Anonymous and, 98 big data, 17 as privileged, detached, representational, 131 bit torrent. See also P2P, 11 See also cyber-disobedience, hacktivism black bloc, 23 Age of Information, Age of Awakened, 41, 61, bombings, 69, 70, 72, 76, 87, 103 historical, 24–25, 33, 38. See also the Agnew, Robert, 45 Unabomber anarchism , anarchy in film, 57 criminalization of, 21, 24–25, 38 in literature, 29 cyber, 14, 20, 107–8, 111

etymology, definitions of, 9 literary (mis)representations of, 28–33 C resurgence of, 22 Canada techno-, 11 Bill C-30 'Protecting Children from Internet anarchist(s) , 9–10 Predators Act,' 84–85 A-Infos, 133 CSIS (Can. Security & Intelligence Services) production, 35 and CSEC, 16–17 state, police and, 12, 15, 21, 23 metadata surveillance in, 15–18 syndicalism, 132–34, 136. See also state repression in, 19, 36 syndicalism whistleblowing in, 87, 90–93 , 103 theoretical approaches by, 45 capitalism See also TAO conflicts with commons, 106–9, 119 anonymity , 6 free market, 111 crime and intrusions, 79 infrastructures of resistance to, 135 technologies that enable, 79 threats to, 73 Anonymous, 5–8 censorship, 6, 12, 15, 54, 73 Chesterton, G.K. D The Man Who Was Friday, 28–29 data retention Chopra, Shiv (whistleblower on Health Canada), commodification and, 2–4, 16 91–93 ISP logging, governmentality, 17–18, 84 civil disobedience, 4–5, 19–20, 98 See also metadata Clastres, Pierre, 120 decentralization, 115 Coleman, Gabriella, 7, 9, 99 of disciplinary power online, 80 Coming Insurrection, The (The Invisible Defense Distributed (3D gun print plans), 10–15 Committee), 62, 63, 65 Deleuze, Gilles, 123, 124 commodification denial of service attacks, distributed (DOS or processes of, 2–3 DDOS), 4, 13–14, 61, 64, 78–79 conflicts with commons, 106, 109 desire, 120 commonism , 1, 104–5 deviance, deviants commons authoritarian constructions of anarchists as, communication, 2, 3, 10–11, 13, 14, 21 24 creative, 'open cultures' movements, 12, 107 crime and, 79, 86 ecological, social and communications, 105– elite, corporate espionage, 92 109 hacker depictions as, 44, 47, 60 feudalist enclosures of land, 2, 3, 73, 92, Diebert, Ronald, 16, 17 104 , 137n8 Diggers or Ranters, 3, 104 modern renaissance of, 104 direct action, 3, 5, 38, 128–29, 134–35, 136 reclamations of, 3 cyberdisobedience and, 5, 20 communes, 63 disciplinary power, 80–86 Paris Commune, 1871, 24 DIY, do-it-yourself, 11, 35 , 108–9, 115, 120 communism , 35, 63, 73, 105 See also peer-to-peer, 109 communist(s) Doherty, Brian , 11 Soviet and Stalinist regimes, 22 , 105 Dyer-Witheford, Nick, 105, 106–7, 109–10, 111, See also Red Scares 116 complex systems theory, 111–113 content analysis (research methods), 44–45 E cooperation , 107–8 Electronic Frontier Foundation, 64 in FOSS and P2P, 110 elite (power, deviance of), 18, 92 copyright enclosures, 35–36, 111 battles over, 65–67, 135 corporate net commodification processes, 2– and 3D printing, 12 3 corporations current organising against, 12, 105, 109, 118, enclosure of internet, 2 119 whistleblowing in/against, 89–90 feudal, of common land, 2, 94, 104 crime statist, 108 innovation in, 86 encryption , 6, 12–13, 101, 79 social determinants shaping, 79, 87 ethics , 85, 91, 98, 102 Critical Art Ensemble, 123 of hacking, 41–43, 46–47, 53, 60 cyber disobedience See also whistleblowing and direct action, 5 European Counter Networks (ecn.net), 134 introduction to, 2–7 EZLN. See Zapatistas cybercrime regulation, discipline, governmentality over, F 80–85 Facebook, 15, 66, 82, 99. See also the Panopticon fascism indignants, 59 neo- or prison-industrial capitalism, 135–36 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 26, 133– technological surveillance, command and 34 control, 114–15 aka. 'Wobblies,' 132 FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigations) , 55, infrastructures of resistance, 130–31, 136 68 information feudalism, 2, 73, 92, 104 , 137n8 Age of, 41, 59, 61, 69, 70, 72, 76, 87, 103 Foster, John Bellamy, 1, 2–3 'wants to be free,' 11, 13 , 98, 100 Foucault, Michel, (Foucaldian theory), 75, 80, 85 insurrection, 24, 49, 57, 98, 121 , 129–30 Invisible Committee, The G The Coming Insurrection, 62–63 , 65 gaming, video, 12 Iraq War Logs (US military leak), 69, 95 See also Playstation hack ; WarGames (film) Isole Nella Rete, 134 Gardner, Sue (Wikipedia Foundation), 66 globalization, 27 , 76 J alternative or anti-, 19, 20, 26, 71, 115, 122, James, Henry, 27–33 127–28 Global Positioning System. See GPS K Google, 15, 17, 44 Kaczynski, Ted. See Unabomber governmentality, 78, 80–85 Kline, Jesse, 12, 13 GPS (Global Positioning System), 83 Kropotkin, Peter, 30, 133 guns , 3D printing of, 11, 14–15 L H Landauer, Gustav, 121, 124 hackers leaks, leaking. See whistleblowing, WikiLeaks as workers. See also syndicalism, 134–36 liminality. See also borders, 119 definitions of, 41–43 Luddites, 34–35, 37 ethics of, 41–43, 46–47, 53, 60 LulzSec, 4, 13, 15, 68, 104 film portrayals of, 43–52 hacking for fun, 54–55 motivations of, 50, 56–57 LulzXmas Stratfor hack, 69 UK prosecutions against, 13 See also Anonymous M Hackers (film by Iain Softley) Manning, Chelsea Elizabeth (née Bradley hacktivism, 41–42 Edward), 69–70, 95–97 , 99, 100 as reclaiming commons, 135 Marx, Karl, 3, 22, 109 described, 4 McChesney, Robert W., 1, 2, 3 etymology of, 63–64 McKay, Peter (Canadian Defense Minister), 15 moral panics around, 38–39 metadata, 15–18 , 103 social or political, 52–53, 71–72 military HBGary hack, 68 and hackers, 69–70 Health Canada in film WarGames, 51–52 unsafe drug approvals, 92 law and use of force, 80 horizontalism, 8, 35, 115 , 122 origins of the internet, 1 human rights, 64, 79 , 91 whistleblowing and the, 88, 94–95 See also disciplinary power I Millenium (Hakim Bey), 118–20 immediatism, 117–18 Mills, C. Wright, 18 Indigenous peoples, movements of, 115, 127, modernity , industrial, 75, 78, 81 128, 133 second, or post-modernism, 94, 108, 118, 120 Monsegur, Hector Xavier. See Sabu primitive accumulation, 3 moral(s), morality PRISM, 15, 103. See also NSA of hackers, 41–43, 53. See also prison(s), 10, 80, 81, 85, 136 whistleblowing in film, 48 panic(s), 23, 39 hackers in, 13, 68, 101 regulation of, 10 whistleblowers in, 93, 97, 99 Most, Johann, 30 See also the Panopticon privacy, 86 N confidentiality, data retention, 84–85 Nader, Ralph, 88 confidentiality, data integrity, 79–80 Negri, Antonio, 108, 110–111, 129–130 disciplinary power and, 81–82 NSA (US National Security Agency), 103 hacking and, 47 in film portrayal, 57 invasions, 17–18 Snowden revelations on mass surveillance by, vs. security tradeoff, 18 15–17 propaganda TAO (Tailored Access Operations), 132 of the deed, 24, 36 of the state, 49, 70 O property Omega (hacker), 63–64 intellectual. See also SOPA, 65–66 openness, 107–8 rights, as enclosure of the mind, 104 See also commons Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 10, 123 organizations, organizational practice, 62 public interest , 88, 91, 93 Oxblood Ruffin, 63–64, 79, 98 R P Ranters (or Diggers), 104 Palmer Raids, 26 Red Scare(s), 25–27, 38–39 Panopticon (Jeremy Bentham's permanent regulation visibility prison), 80, 82, 103 academic discipline, 81 PayPal, 3 Health Canada de-, 92 peer review, 81 of the internet, 35, 75, 80, 84–86 peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, 6, 101, 109 , 110, state, 10, 100, 108 116 revolution, 121 PGP. See Pretty Good Privacy anarchist social change, 26, 32, 37–38 pharmaceutical industry, 92–93 immediatist, 118 PIPA (US-Preventing Real Online Threats to portrayed as conspiracy, 32 ...Intellectual Property Act), 65 Riseup (Networks & Labs), 39, 134 piracy, 54, 61, 65, 66, 73, 107, 137n8 Playstation Network hack, 67 Polanyi, Karl, 120 S police, 19, 20, 23, 37, 69 Sabu (Hector Xavier Monsegur), 67–68 post-modernism , 94, 108, 118, 120 Scientology, Church of, 50, 51, 54 anarchism and, 123–124 Sneakers (film by Phil Alden Robinson), 46, 54– poststructuralism, 124 55, 57 potenza (constituent power), 129–30 Snowden, Edward, 15–16, 102–3 power social action, 123–25 and discipline, 80–81 See also direct action disciplinary, 80–86 social structures, 37 governmentality, legal regimes and, 78–80 Sony Electronics, Inc, 67–68 Pretty Good Privacy (PGP encryption), 12–13 SOPA (US-Stop Online Piracy Act), 65–66 Squire, Jo, 2, 4, 5, 8, 135 49, 53 state video games. See gaming, video capital and, 10, 18, 21, 34, 35 enclosures by, 2–3, 12, 21 W violence and repression, 19, 24, 26, 36, 72, 86 war surveillance by, 15 financing of, 70 whistleblowing and the, 89, 90, 92–93 on terror, 17 , 25, 33, 36 See also Canada; FBI; globalization, NSA; profits vs. public image, 69–70 PRISM; United States WarGames (film by Lawrence Lasker), 45, 51– Stirner, Max, 121 52, 53, 55 strain theory, 45 Westboro Baptist Church , 50, 51 Stratfor hack, 69 whistleblowing, 99–100 , 103 strike(s) , 38, 85, 133, 134–35 Canadian legal context of, 90–91, 90–92 surveillance defined, 87 by Canadian state, 15–19 US history of, 87–89 monitoring and disciplinary power, 80–83 Wikileaks, 94–95, 100–101 Panopticon, 80 Wikipedia, 66 , 67, 101 PRISM, 15, 103 Wilson, Cody, 10–15 society and, 79 World Trade Organization, demonstrations See also metadata, NSA against, 127 Swordfish (film by Dominic Sena) workers' control, 110 syndicalism, 38, 127, 130–36 See also autonomy working class (& organizations of), 20, 38, 111 , 130–31 T TAO Communications, 39, 104, 132–36 Z terrorism, terrorists Zapatistas, 121–24 anarchists portrayed as, 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, 35 anti-terror panics, 39 hackers portrayed as, 21, 38, 52–53 , 58, 59 'poetic', 117–18 state vs. non-state actors, 36 'war on', 17, 18, 25, 33, 36 Tiqqun. See The Invisible Committee Toews, Vic (Minister of Public Safety, Canada), 85 Tor, 79 Toronto, 19, 133, 134 trickster figure, 55

U Unabomber, 33–35, 114 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, 64 United States State Department, 12–13 whistleblowing in, 87-89

V V for Vendetta (film by James McTeigue), 48–