[ecrea] Out Now: In the Facebook Aquarium—The Resistable Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism by Ippolita

Last night, at the Facebook Farewell Party in the National Theater in 
Amsterdam on Leidseplein our Institute of Network Cultures proudly 
presented its latest publication:

In the Facebook Aquarium—The Resistable Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism by 
Ippolita

Read it online or download the publication here:

http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-15-in-the-facebook-aquarium-the-resistible-rise-of-anarcho-capitalism-ippolita/

In their new work research collective Ippolita provides a critical 
investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all 
commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that 
can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. 
Facebook may appear to be a form of free entertainment and 
self-promotion but in reality its users are working for the development 
of a new type of market where they trade relationships. As users of 
social media we have willingly submitted to a vast social, economic and 
cultural experiment.

By critically examining the theories of Californian right-libertarians, 
Ippolita show the thread con- necting Facebook to the European Pirate 
Parties, WikiLeaks and beyond. An important task today is to reverse the 
logic of radical transparency and apply it to the technologies we use on 
a daily basis. The algorithms used for online advertising by the new 
masters of the digital world – Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon – are 
the same as those used by despotic governments for personalized 
repression. Ippolita argues we should not give in to the logic of 
conspiracy or paranoia instead we must seek to develop new ways of 
autonomous living in our networked society.

Ippolita are an interdisciplinary research group active since 2005. They 
conduct wide-ranging re- search on technology and its social effects. 
Their published works include Open non è Free (2005), The Dark Side of 
Google (2013) and La Rete è libera e democratica. FALSO! (2014). The 
collective also run workshops on digital self-defense for girls, 
children, academics, affinity groups, computer geeks and curious people. 
See: http://ippolita.net

First published in Italian, 2012.
English edition revised and updated, June 2015.

Author: Ippolita. Translator: Patrice Riemens and Cecile Landman. 
Copy-editing: Matt Beros. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Design: Katja 
van Stiphout. EPUB development: Gottfried Haider. Printer: ‘Print on 
Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN: 
978-94-92302-00-7.

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